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Got to spend Christmas week with my daughter and her husband's family. No babies but there were 6 dogs. 3 black labs, 2 mutts, any my wife's little Rescue Pomeranian. The smallest lead the pack outside. I was afraid she would get eaten

"Windows to a Diminutive Yellow Soul" by Zhong Rui Marcus Kuan

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Okay, it is a legitimate English word but in 75 years I have never heard a person use it (and I have several pedantic linguist friends). I came across it in a crossword puzzle.:

Rodomontade (which can also be spelled rhodomontade) originated in Italian poetry. Rodomonte was a fierce and boastful king in Orlando Innamorato, Count Matteo M. Boiardo's late 15th century epic, and later in the 1516 sequel Orlando Furioso, written by poet Lodovico Ariosto. In the late 16th century, English speakers began to use rodomont as a noun meaning "braggart." Soon afterwards, rodomontade entered the language as a noun meaning "empty bluster" or "bragging speech," and later as an adjective meaning "boastful" or "ranting."