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RODOMONTADE, or RHODOMONTADE

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RODOMONTADE, or RHODOMONTADE , a See also:term for boastful, extravagant See also:language or any inflated bragging speech. The word refers to the brave but boastful Saracen See also:leader Rodomonte in See also:Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. The name (in the See also:form Rodamante) appears earlier in See also:Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato. It is supposed to represent a See also:compound of rodare, to See also:roll, and See also:monte, See also:mountain.

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