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English
Etymology
Partly from Italian rodomontata (with change of suffix), partly an alteration of rodomontade, after -ado. Compare rodomontade.
Pronunciation
Noun
rodomontado (countable and uncountable, plural rodomontados or rodomontadoes)
- A brag or boast; a rodomontade.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Anger and Choller”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC, page 413: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.
1781, Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, volume I, Dublin: Pat. Wogan, pages 460–461: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 […]
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, Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 94:They 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.