bom·bast /ˈbɑmˌbæst/
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Bom·bast n.
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. --Stubbes.
3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
Bom·bast, a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.
Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.
Bom·bast v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. --Drayton.
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bombast
n : pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: fustian, rant,
claptrap, blah]