RODOMONT

PRONUNCIATION: (RAH-duh-mont)

MEANING: noun: A vain boaster.

ETYMOLOGY: After Rodomonte, the boastful king in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Boiardo and the sequel Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Earliest documented use: 1592. A related word is rodomontade.
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R.O. DUMONT - Robert Orrin Dumont, the black sheep of the family

ODO, MONT. - a town in Montana whose boundaries keep shifting

FRODO, MONT - another town, whose citizens were profoundly influenced by The Hobbit