Another good day in Palm Springs. Good speakers, good networking with colleagues from across the country. Good weather. That's important! It was not particularly warm, but the sun was out and there was no rain. An early start (breakfast is at 7 a.m.), speakers, presentations, breaks, a couple business communications, lunch, field trips, excursions, naps, dinner...the usual stuff. Tomorrow is a repeat (kind of) of today, and then the wrap up, and I will leave Sunday morning and head home. Ready to go!Rodomontade -- Noun: 1. a bragging speech. 2. vain boasting or bluster: rant. Harry's penchant for swagger and rodomontade is in sharp contrast to his brother's modesty and self-deprecating charm.
Did You Know? Rodomontade (which can also be spelled rhodomontade) originated in Italian poetry. Rodomontade was a fierce and boastful king in Orlando Innamorato, Count Matteo M Boiardo's late 15th-century epic, and later in the sequel Orlando Furioso, written by poet Lodovico Ariosto in 1516. In the late 16th century, English speakers began to use rodomont as a noun meaning "Braggart." Soon afterward, rodomontade entered the language as a noun (meaning "empty bluster" or "bragging speech") and later as an adjective (meaning "boastful" or "ranting"). The noun rodomont is no longer used in English, but rodomontade is still with us.
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