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Posted by angel_crafter on May 23, 2008, 2:14 pm
Today's Word "bombast"
bombast BOM-bast (noun) - Pompous or pretentious speech or writing.
"Sain Flint decided not to run Amelia Lowell's bombast on the front
page. Instead, he put it on page three." -- Richard S. Wheeler,
'Flint's Truth'
Bombast comes from Medieval French bombace, "cotton, hance padding,"
from Late Latin bombax, "
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