BRAVADO (bravadoes)

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Irregular inflected form: bravadoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bravado mean? 

• BRAVADO (noun)
  The noun BRAVADO has 1 sense:

1. a swaggering show of courage

  Familiarity information: BRAVADO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAVADO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A swaggering show of courage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bluster; bravado

Hypernyms ("bravado" is a kind of...):

fanfare; flash; ostentation (a gaudy outward display)

 Context examples 

Was it the thief who did it out of bravado?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Opposite her stood a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man, his gaitered legs parted wide, one arm akimbo, the other waving a riding crop, his whole attitude suggestive of triumphant bravado.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You think you carry it off very well, I dare say, but with you it is a sort of bravado, an air of affected unconcern; I always observe it whenever I meet you under those circumstances.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)