Fanfaronade \Fan*far`on*ade"\, n. [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp.
fanfarronada. See Fanfaron.]
A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "fanfaronade":
anniversaries, blazon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff,
blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag,
braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bravura, brilliancy,
bullying, bustle, celebrating, celebration, ceremony,
commemoration, conceit, daring, dash, demonstration, display,
dramatics, dressing ship, eclat, etalage, exhibition,
exhibitionism, false front, fanfare, festivity, figure, flair,
flaunt, flaunting, flourish, flourish of trumpets, flurry, fluster,
fuss, gasconade, gasconism, hectoring, heroics, histrionics,
holiday, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, jubilee,
manifestation, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory,
observance, ovation, pageant, pageantry, parade, rant, rejoicing,
religious rites, remembrance, revel, rite, ritual observance,
rodomontade, salute, salvo, sham, show, showing-off, side,
solemn observance, solemnization, spectacle, splash, splurge,
splutter, sputter, staginess, swagger, swashbucklery, testimonial,
testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, theatrics, toast, tribute,
triumph, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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