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- noun Plural form of
bravado .
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Examples
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Before, it used to be torture to me listening to the polka-rooted accordion bravados announcing the "arrival of May's blossoms" or the shrill sounds of mixed horns romanticizing about some girl's "beautiful blue eyes that graciously adorn your forehead."
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: One and Only Mom 2010
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Twice he had the pleasure of running into some of the same bravados he had met going to the capitol and thoroughly enjoyed making them perform Kowtow as he now outranked them by some distance.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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It would be interesting to stare defiantly at his enemy at close range, to speak with him again man to man, to lure him into further bravados.
Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912
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To this height had his incredible folly transported him; but the generous lion, more gentle than arrogant, taking no notice of his vaporing and bravados, after he had looked about him awhile, turned his tail, and having showed Don Quixote his hinder parts, very contentedly lay down again in his apartment.
The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892
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The Spaniards, reckless of their bravados, proceeded, nevertheless, and then the chief placed himself in front of his tribe, drest in a cotton mantle and followed by the principal lords, and with more intrepidity than fortune, gave the signal for combat.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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She makes sorties and attacks, she endeavours to hide her weakness by her bravados, and when she replies most disdainfully to a summons to capitulate, is perhaps on the eve of surrender.
At Agincourt 1867
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Wilder, who was accustomed to the honest professional bravados that often formed a peculiar embellishment to the really firm and manly resolution of the seamen of that age, permitted him to make his plaints at will, while he busied himself in a manner that he knew was now of the last importance and in a duty that properly came under his more immediate inspection, in consequence of the station he occupied.
The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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They made many bravados, daily shooting off forty, fifty, or sixty pieces of ordnance at Nero and Puloway, thinking to frighten us.
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We emotionally crave certain bravados of leadership.
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We emotionally crave certain bravados of leadership.
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