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fanfaronade
[ fan-fer-uh-neyd ]
noun
- bragging; bravado; bluster.
fanfaronade
/ ˌfænfərəˈnɑːd /
noun
- rare.boasting or flaunting behaviour; bluster
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fanfaronade1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fanfaronade1
C17: via French from Spanish fanfarronada, from fanfarrón boaster, from Arabic farfār garrulous
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Example Sentences
This was the derisive answer that Clarissa made to this fanfaronade of old Joshua.
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Jessie had heard all this fanfaronade, and much more from Mrs. Baxter, but she was not thinking of it now.
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He loves bright colours, he easily becomes audacious, overcrowing, full of fanfaronade.
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He had now spread himself out on the back seat, his two arms on the sides of the boat, and was showing off with fanfaronade.
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There was, no doubt, in the movement a good deal of claret and fanfaronade.
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