Meanings
plural rodomontados · plural rodomontadoes · alternative rodomantado
- countableuncountableA brag or boast; a rodomontade.
I likewiſe blame thoſe who being angry, will brave and mutinie when the partie with whome they are offended is not by. Theſe Rodomantados muſt be employed on ſuch as feare them.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Anger and Choller”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 4132 more examples
A domeſtic poet, called Flann Mac Lonnane, who was of this king’s retinue, having heard out this piece of rodomontado, could not refrain from telling his maſter, that he was apprehenſive if he had gone upon ſuch a ſporting ſchcme into the country of the Dal-Caſſian tribe[…]
1781, Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, volume I, Dublin: […] Pat. Wogan, pages 460–461They pronounced the captain the finest fellow in the world, and his men all bons garçons, jovial lads, and swore they would pass the day with them. They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontado.
1837, Washington Irving, chapter VII, in The Rocky Mountains: Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West; […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 94
Origin
- Italianrodomontata
- Englishrodomontado
Partly from Italian rodomontata (with change of suffix), partly an alteration of rodomontade, after -ado. Compare rodomontade.
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