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rodomontades

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  • noun Plural form of rodomontade.

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Examples

  • At the very least, for those who can't see the col-lOH-sal snark in the letter, is the term 'rodomontades'.

    Shooting blanks EliRabett 2009

  • Indeed, it seems only to be a matter of time before Alex Salmond favours us with one of his customary Holyrood rodomontades on the issue.

    Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna 2011

  • Not for this story the arch rodomontades of "Cool Air," or the distant antiquarianism of "He."

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • No, he did not believe in the probability of an approaching conflict, unless it should be provoked by French turbulence and by the rodomontades of the self-styled patriots of the League.

    Strong as Death 2003

  • The coincidence of this festival with the Assumption gave rise to adulatory rodomontades of the most absurd description.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Its worst fault is distortion through sentimentality, and indulgence in the habit of putting the author's rodomontades into the mouths of Robertson and other characters.

    Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908

  • Notwithstanding his rodomontades, it is certain that in his heart he was scared by Rome.

    Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

  • No, he did not believe in the probability of an approaching conflict, unless it should be provoked by French turbulence and by the rodomontades of the self-styled patriots of the League.

    Strong as Death Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • He treated Teynagel as a mere madcap and, adventurer who had no right to be received as a public minister at all, and cut short his rodomontades by assuring him that his mind was fully made up to protect the possessory princes.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • The King continued by observing that the clear-sighted in Spain laughed at these rodomontades, knowing well that it was pure exhaustion that had compelled the King to such extremities.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

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