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单词 rodomont
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rodomontn.

Brit. /ˈrɒdəmɒnt/, /ˈrɒdəm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈrɑdəˌmɑnt/
Forms:

α. 1500s– rodomont, 1600s rodomant, 1600s rodomond, 1500s–1800s rodomonte.

β. 1500s–1600s rhodomonte.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French rodomont; Italian rodomonte.
Etymology: < Middle French, French rodomont (1573 in plural rodomons) and its etymon Italian rodomonte (although this is apparently first attested slightly later: a1587; however, compare the exclamation Al corpo di Rodomonte! ‘By the body of Rodomonte!’ (1545)), extended use of Rodomonte, the name of a courageous, but hot-tempered and boastful Saracen leader, one of the characters in the epic poem Orlando innamorato by M. M. Boiardo (1495) and its continuation by L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso (1532).With the β. forms compare the α. forms at rodomontade n. and adj. and the β. forms at rodomontado n. and adj.
allusive.
A person likened in some way to Rodomonte, esp. as a vainglorious boaster.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster
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1592 F. Bacon in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1974) I. 48 France is turned vpsyde downe,..a cuntry of Rodomontes & Royteletes.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 143 Where such an other Rodomont, so furious, so valorous, so redoutable?
1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. X.4 The fourth of Tullies Rhetorickes, where he speaketh of a bragging Rhodomonte.
1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel viii. 207 As if there were more terrible Rodomontes among the Spaniardes, then otherwhere.
1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 69 St. Jude argues with the Rodomonts of his Time.
1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction i. xx. 27 Such Rodomonts can do you little wrong, Whose only dang'rous Weapon is their Tongue.
1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa II. 11 Of such rodomonts I am told that Portugal has even a larger number than of idlers.
1832 W. Scott Count Robert in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 285 So passionate a Rodomont is Count Robert, that he would rather risk the success of the whole expedition, than omit an opportunity of meeting a worthy antagonist.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxx. 362 I can never think how I avoided being stabbed myself or stabbing one of these two Rodomonts.
1908 M. Hume in Trans. Royal Soc. 2nd Ser. 28 25 This type was held up to ridicule and made a coward as well as a rodomont.
1950 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 40 111/1 He apologizes, not wanting to be considered a Rodomont, for having to mention his military exploits again.
2006 J. Klaehn Bound by Power ii. 22 Assaults on the ‘liberal’ academy were, for a time, consigned to opinion columns penned by conservative rodomonts.

Compounds

Rodomont fashion n. Obsolete rare the style or manner of Rodomonte or a rodomont.
ΚΠ
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Owles 154 in Wks. (1640) III Who had thought to have..triumpht our whole Nation, In his Rodomant fashion.

Derivatives

Rodomont-like adv. Obsolete
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Á pied de plomb,..Rodomont-like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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