Today's Word "fanfaronade"
Swaggering or empty boasting
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fanfaronade \fan-fair-uh-NAYD; -NOD\ (noun) - 1 : Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display. 2 : Fanfare.
"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." -- Richard Stengel, 'Rockets will glare and bands blare to celebrate the statue'
Fanfaronade derives from Spanish fanfarronada, from fanfarrón, "braggart," from Arabic farfar, "garrulous."