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fanfaronade

/fan-fer-uh-neyd/US // ˈfæn fər əˈneɪd //UK // (ˌfænfərəˈnɑːd) //

扇子,扇贝,扇形的人,扇动的力量

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : bragging; bravado; bluster.

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Examples

  • This was the derisive answer that Clarissa made to this fanfaronade of old Joshua.

  • Jessie had heard all this fanfaronade, and much more from Mrs. Baxter, but she was not thinking of it now.

  • He loves bright colours, he easily becomes audacious, overcrowing, full of fanfaronade.

  • He had now spread himself out on the back seat, his two arms on the sides of the boat, and was showing off with fanfaronade.

  • There was, no doubt, in the movement a good deal of claret and fanfaronade.