In The Wilder Shores of Marx by Theodore Dalrymple on page 85 he says
At first I was
amused by the palace, by its preposterous architectural rodomontade;
then I was fascinated by it, for it seemed to me to raise in tangible
... Sometimes (I was told) the Securitate wish to intimidate
you.
The word refers to pretentious boasting or bragging; bluster.
Other examples
James Fenimore Cooper, Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
James Fenimore Cooper, Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
She admired Tom for his exterior, but the admiration of no moderately sensible woman could overlook rodomontade so exceedingly desperate.
Anne Bronte in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
She knows what she's about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she'll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage, he flatters himself that she's devotedly attached to him; that she will not refuse him for his poverty, and does not court him for his rank, but loves him for himself alone.
Anne Bronte in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
She knows what she's about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she'll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage, he flatters himself that she's devotedly attached to him; that she will not refuse him for his poverty, and does not court him for his rank, but loves him for himself alone.
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