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fanfaronade

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fan·far·o·nade  (fnfr--nd, -näd)
n.
1. Bragging or blustering manner or behavior.
2. A fanfare.
[French fanfaronnade, from Spanish fanfarronada, bluster, from fanfarrón, a braggart, perhaps from Arabic farfr, talkative, from farfara, to become agitated, become talkative.]
fanfaronade
swaggering boastfulness; vainglorious speech or behavior. — fanfaron, n.
See also: Behavior


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Better to admit that one is doing a job, fulfilling a function, than carrying on a fanfaronade of high-mindedness that might be credible in the context of Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and William Morris, but which hardly seems adequate to our own noisier and debased times.
"1997 Biennial Exhibition:' Whitney Museum of American art by Rimanelli, David / Artforum International
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