rhodomontade

English

Noun

rhodomontade (countable and uncountable, plural rhodomontades)

  1. Dated spelling of rodomontade.
    • 1838 (date written)​, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 236:
      And do you, Georgy, contrive to tell Penrhyn all the particulars of this drowning affair; for I remember the bare facts being mentioned at Lord Penrhyns, and he will tell them with effect, avoiding rhodomontade without omitting pathos.
    • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CXV, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
      He addressed himself directly to his guest with a torrent of rhodomontade; and the young man, reduced to helpless silence and shy, nodded his head at intervals to show that he took an intelligent interest.

Verb

rhodomontade (third-person singular simple present rhodomontades, present participle rhodomontading, simple past and past participle rhodomontaded)

  1. Dated spelling of rodomontade.
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