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Definition of Bravados
1. bravado [n] - See also: bravado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bravados
Literary usage of Bravados
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Second Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
"Yankee Falsehoods and bravados in Europe...Delusion of Conquering the South by
Starvation.. Caricatures in the *New York Pictorials...The Noble Eloquence of ..."
2. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1840)
"... and disentan- ;le himself from his own bravados, called out 10 much the more
vehemently upon Nicias to ;ive up the command, and roared aloud at the ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"Hushed were the dawn's bravados, Loud noon was a silenced cry ; And Quiet slipped
from the shadows As stars slip out of the sky. ..."
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