Rodomontade

Fr. Rodomontade. The act of bullying, vain boasting or arrogating to ourselves qualities which we do not po e . A French writer has very justly observed, that there cannot be a greater defect in the character of an officer than an overweening display of real or fictitious talents. The word is derived from one Rodomont, the hero or principal character in an old romance, who makes himself conspicuously ridiculous in this way. Sir John Falstaff and Bobadil in English comedy, are specimens of this character.