| \rod-uh-mon-TEYD, -TAHD, -muh n-, roh-duh-\ | noun
1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
adjective
1. bragging.
| | Quotes | "The sloop I have the honour to command is always ready to put to sea," said Clonfert. That was mere rodomontade: no ship was always ready to put to sea unless she never used up any water, stores, powder or shot …
-- Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command, 1977 | | Origin | | Rodomontade stems from the name of a boastful king, Rodomonte, in the Italian epic poems Orlando innamorato (1483) and Orlando furioso (1516). It entered English in the early 1600s. | |
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