Definition of Fanfaronades

1. Noun. (plural of fanfaronade) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fanfaronades

1. fanfaronade [n] - See also: fanfaronade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanfaronades

fandubbings
fandubs
fane
fanega
fanegada
fanegadas
fanegas
fanes
fanfare
fanfared
fanfarelike
fanfares
fanfaring
fanfaron
fanfaronade
fanfaronades (current term)
fanfarons
fanfest
fanfests
fanfic
fanfics
fanfiction
fanfold
fanfolded
fanfolding
fanfolds
fanfoot
fanft
fang

Literary usage of Fanfaronades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Obscure busy men frequent the back stairs; with hearsays, wind- projects, unfruitful fanfaronades. Young Royalists, at the Theatre de Vaudeville, ..."

2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Obscure busy men frequent the back stairs; with hearsays, wind-projects, unfruitful fanfaronades. Young Royalists, at the Theatre de Vaudeville, ..."

3. Carlyles' Works by Thomas Carlyle (1884)
"Obscure busy men frequent the back stairs; with hearsays, wind- projects, unfruitful fanfaronades. Young Royalists, at the Theatre de Vaudeville, ..."

4. Catalogue by Toronto Mechanics' Institute Library (1913)
""God will see to our freedom, and see that we see to it without fanfaronades, if we see to His Gospel". And so this notable work which has been most ..."

5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... and repeat the apostrophic fanfaronades, representing that the very squaws and papooses hold them in cowering submission, and that henceforth these only ..."

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