| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bombast |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bom·bast |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b m b st |
| NOUN: | Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Alteration of obsolete bombace, cotton padding, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, cotton. See bombazine. | | OTHER FORMS: | bombaster —NOUN
bom·bastic —ADJECTIVE
bom·basti·cal·ly —ADVERB
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