fanfaronade

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As he stood under the tall microphone, pondering fanfaronade, Bobby's long trousers seemed to sag.

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In Round 18, popular Fred Souk, 13, who had flown all the way from the Azores, where his father works, threw an extra "r" into fanfaronade, and only five spellers were left.

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At Miami, the Hoover party was welcomed by Governor Carlton amid a Florida fanfaronade.

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But like a demure singer in a long gown who is surrounded by chorus girls in sequined miniskirts, the statue may seem slightly lost amid the fanfaronade.

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The kings who had been deposed with so much bloodshed and fanfaronade, reappeared as if nothing had happened when Louis Philippe laid the first stone for the pedestal of Corneille's statue carved by David d'Angers.

From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir