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about 1 year ago eamonn said: rodomontade comes from

Rodomont or Rodomonte (the name means "mountain" in Italian). Rodomont, a Moorish king in Aristo's epic, Orlando Furioso, is brave but boastful. He has given his name to rodomontade, meaning blustering, bragging, boasting. The same qualities appear in braggadocio, from Braggadocio, a character in Spenser's Faerie Queen.

about 1 year ago eamonn said: happenstance

is a thing that happens by chance; something that's a result of chance and circumstance

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