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‖ fanfaron, n. (a.)|ˈfænfərɒn|
Also 7 fanfaroone, -rrone, 8 -ran, 9 -roon.
[F. fanfaron, f. fanfare.]
1. A blusterer, boaster, braggart.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 62 They should not play the Fanfarrones. 1694R. L'Estrange Fables 137 There are fanfarons in the tryals of wit too, as well as in feats of Arms. 1754H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) III. cclviii. 78 An excellent fanfaron, a Major Washington. 1861Sala Dutch Pict. xix. 297, I..always set him down as a vapouring fanfaroon.
b. Const. of. One who makes a parade of something; a trumpeter of.
1857Fonblanque Life & Lab. (1874) 273 He is a little fanfaron of his virtues. 1880McCarthy Own Times I. ii. 27 He became the fanfaron of vices which he never had.
c. attrib. or adj. Braggart, boastful.
1670–98R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. Pref., He must not follow them in all their Phantastical and fanfaron clothings. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. iii. Diss. upon Pallas Anglic. 21 These Fanfaran or Thrasonick Romists. 1831Soc. Life Eng. & France ii. 74 Blood..seems to have been a sort of fanfaron assassin.
¶2. = fanfare.
1848Lytton Harold II. ix. ii. 298 Amidst a loud fanfaron of fifes and trumpets. |