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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

fanfaronade

\fan-fair-uh-NAYD; -NOD\, noun:
1. Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display.
2. Fanfare.

"I don't appreciate George Mapelthorpe's boasting about how his fanfaronade has two more syllables than my plain old fanfare! My 'fanfare' is good enough. In fact, the Queen of England told me so herself!"

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