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rod⋅o⋅mon⋅tade

  [rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muhn-, roh-duh-] noun, adjective, verb, -tad⋅ed, -tad⋅ing.
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–noun
1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
–adjective
2. bragging.
–verb (used without object)
3. to boast; brag; talk big.
Origin:
1605–15; < MF < It Rodomonte, the boastful king of Algiers in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso + MF -ade -ade 1
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rod·o·mon·tade   (rŏd'ə-mŏn-tād', -täd', rō'də-)   
n.  Pretentious boasting or bragging; bluster: "a detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade" (John Morley).
adj.  Pretentiously boastful or bragging.
intr.v.   ro·do·mon·tad·ed, ro·do·mon·tad·ing, ro·do·mon·tades
To boast or brag; bluster.

[French, from Italian rodomontada, from Rodomonte, arrogant Saracen leader in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.]
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Rodomontade

Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See Rodomont, n.] Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.

I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. --Dryden.

Rodomontade

Rod`o*mon*tade"\, v. i. To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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rodomontade 
1612, "vain boasting like that of Rodomonte," character in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" (earlier rodomontado, 1598). The name means lit. "one who rolls (away) the mountain" in dial. It.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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