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Definition of Bravadoes

1. bravado [n] - See also: bravado

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bravadoes

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braunschweiger braunschweigers brava bravado bravadoed bravadoes (current term) bravados Bravais lattice bravas brave

brave braved bravely braveness bravenesses braver braveries bravers bravery bravery

Literary usage of Bravadoes

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1. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"Yankee Falsehoods and bravadoes in Europe.—Delusion of Conquering the South by Starvation.—Caricatures in the New York Pictorials. ..."

2. The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton by Logan Pearsall Smith, Henry Wotton (1907)
"... and how in Spain in 1614 he was set on by bravadoes in the pay of the English ambassador. Lord Digby, and nearly killed, but protected by the Virgin. ..."

3. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1858)
"The Remonstrants, then passing over Schott's bravadoes at the same place, ... Among the rest, divers bravadoes and hostile actions there put in practice by ..."

4. The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de Soto by Theodore Irving (1851)
"These extravagancies provoked the laughter of the Spaniards, who considered them the bravadoes of a vaporing spirit; but the deeds of the cacique afterwards ..."

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