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rodomontade (n)

Bragging or bluster, or a rant.

I put down the phone long before Ron finished his rodomontade.

"English borrowed the word via French in the seventeenth century. At first it meant a single boastful act, so that one could speak in the plural of rodomontades, but then it became both an adjective and a verb. These days we use it as a mass noun to refer to the whole business of making your point by laying it on rather too thick."
--Michael Quinion, World Wide Words