fanfaronnade
English edit
Noun edit
fanfaronnade (countable and uncountable, plural fanfaronnades)
- Alternative form of fanfaronade
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- Pen hoped Pynsent might have forgotten his little fanfaronnade, and any other braggadocio speeches or actions which he might have made.
Verb edit
fanfaronnade (third-person singular simple present fanfaronnades, present participle fanfaronnading, simple past and past participle fanfaronnaded)
- Alternative form of fanfaronade
French edit
Etymology edit
From fanfaronner + -ade. Compare Italian fanfaronata.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fanfaronnade f (plural fanfaronnades)
Descendants edit
- → English: fanfaronade
- → German: Fanfaronade
- → Polish: fanfaronada
Further reading edit
- “fanfaronnade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.