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Definition of Fanfarons
1. fanfaron [n] - See also: fanfaron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanfarons
Literary usage of Fanfarons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1882)
"... follows three jeunes fanfarons, arm in arm together, dressed in the height of
the fashion. ' Us parlaient de politique a peu press comme on parle de ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... to this day, makes all, save foolish fanfarons of freedom from prejudice,
rejoice in the possession, or regret the absence, of a Crusading ancestor. ..."
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