Definitions for rodomontade

rodomontade rod·o·mon·tade

Spelling: [rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muh n-, roh-d
IPA: /ˌrɒd ə mɒnˈteɪd, -ˈtɑd, -mən-, ˌroʊ də-/

Rodomontade is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 638 anagrams from letters in rodomontade (addemnooort).

Definitions for rodomontade

noun

  1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.

adjective

  1. bragging.

verb (used without object)

  1. to boast; brag; talk big.

Origin of rodomontade

1605-15; Middle French Italian Rodomonte, the boastful king of Algiers in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso + Middle French -ade -ade1

Examples for rodomontade

It is amusing to trace Mr. Gosse's rodomontade to its source.

There was in the action as well as in the literature of the Elizabethan time a strain of rodomontade.

The logic of events was at length subduing the rodomontade of soap-box oratory.

The death of Sir Richard Grenville was emphatically what the sixteenth century described as a rodomontade in act.

Lily said, "Yes, it was so," without at all understanding what he meant by his rodomontade.

Except for this exhibition of rodomontade his address was a wonderful display of reasoning and erudition.

His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued.

This F—— was a terrible Rattle, and could rodomontade better than any body.

They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.

Slang is nowadays very often the only vehicle by which rodomontade may be avoided.

Word Value for rodomontade
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