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Definition of Fanfaronades
1. fanfaronade [n] - See also: fanfaronade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanfaronades
Literary usage of Fanfaronades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Obscure busy men frequent the back stairs; with hearsays, wind- projects, unfruitful
fanfaronades. Young Royalists, at the Theatre de Vaudeville, ..."
2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Obscure busy men frequent the back stairs; with hearsays, wind-projects, unfruitful
fanfaronades. Young Royalists, at the Theatre de Vaudeville, ..."
3. Carlyles' Works by Thomas Carlyle (1884)
"Obscure busy men frequent the back stairs; with hearsays, wind- projects, unfruitful
fanfaronades. Young Royalists, at the Theatre de Vaudeville, ..."
4. Catalogue by Toronto Mechanics' Institute Library (1913)
""God will see to our freedom, and see that we see to it without fanfaronades, if
we see to His Gospel". And so this notable work which has been most ..."
5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... and repeat the apostrophic fanfaronades, representing that the very squaws
and papooses hold them in cowering submission, and that henceforth these only ..."
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