Sunday, September 06, 2020

Ignore all that campaign FANFARONADE

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's...

FANFARONADE [FAN-fer-uh-NAID] (noun)

Empty boasting, arrogant bluster

"We laugh at the fanfaronade of the French, but never in my life did I see fanfaronade approaching in extravagance to the fanfaronade of this piece, and every burst of vapour was received by the audience with bouts of applause."
--"Diary of a Constant Reader," in The London Magazine (1826) (TWITO, page 52)




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