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Today's Word "bombast"

Pompous speech or writing on

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bombast \BOM-bast\ (noun) - Pompous or pretentious speech or writing.

"Sain Flint decided not to run Amelia Lowell's bombast on the front page. Instead, he put it on page three." -- Richard S. Wheeler, 'Flint's Truth'

 

Bombast comes from Medieval French bombace, "cotton, hance padding," from Late Latin bombax, "cotton."


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