Word to the Wise: Rodomontade

"Rodomontade" (rod-uh-mun-TADE) is vain, pretentious bragging. It comes from Rodomonte ("roller-away of mountains"), the name of a boastful warrior king in two Italian Renaissance epic poems.

Example (as used by Corey Mesler in ForeWord Magazine): "These are rejoinders born out of a need to deflate a balloon filled with what others view as pomposity or rodomontade."

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