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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bravado
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The new recruits were full of youthful bravado.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, respondents may exaggerate their delinquencies out of bravado, especially likely with juveniles.
▪ As after all I was not a bad little boy but I was shy and covered it up by bravado.
▪ But there was no bravado in it at the time.
▪ Having gone that long undetected by the enemies sitting almost next to me, I'd got my over-confident bravado back with interest.
▪ Later, in the retelling, the act would take on a certain amount of bravado.
▪ My bravado emanated from the knowledge that a certain lady was looking out of her window.
▪ Other work-inhibited students express a false bravado.
▪ The snakes eat themselves at the top of the food-chain out of habit or boredom or sheer bravado.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bravado

Bravado \Bra*va"do\, n., pl. Bravadoes. [Sp. bravada, bravata, boast, brag: cf. F. bravade. See Brave.] Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

In spite of our host's bravado.
--Irving.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bravado

1580s, from French bravade "bragging, boasting," from Italian bravata "bragging, boasting" (16c.), from bravare "brag, boast, be defiant," from bravo (see brave (adj.)). The English word was influenced in form by Spanish words ending in -ado.

Wiktionary
bravado

n. 1 A swaggering show of defiance or courage. 2 A false show of courage.

WordNet
bravado
  1. n. a swaggering show of courage [syn: bluster]

  2. [also: bravadoes (pl)]

Wikipedia
Bravado

Bravado may refer to:

  • A pretense of bravery
  • The Bravados, a 1958 western film
  • "Bravado", a song by Rush from their 1991 album Roll the Bones
  • "Bravado" (song), by Lorde (2013)
  • Bravado (EP), the debut extended play by Australian electronic band Miami Horror
  • Bravado (Nightingale album)
  • Bravado Brothers, American professional wrestling tag team
Bravado (EP)

Bravado is the debut extended play by Australian electronic band Miami Horror. It was released on 14 November 2008 by Virgin Records. A music video for the track "Don't Be On with Her" was released on 11 November 2008.

Bravado (song)

"Bravado" is a song by New Zealand singer Lorde, originally included on her debut EP The Love Club EP. It was later featured on her Tennis Court EP and the extended version of her debut album Pure Heroine (2013). The song was written by Lorde and Joel Little and was produced by the latter. The track was released as a single on 6 September 2013, via iTunes Stores, in a number of European countries and India. Characterised as a chamber pop and electropop song, "Bravado" addresses Lorde's introverted nature and the need to feign confidence in the music industry. The single was well received by music critics and peaked at number five on the New Zealand Artist Singles chart.

Usage examples of "bravado".

I hauled my wind, hove-to, brailed up my sails, and changed the colours, firing a gun in bravado.

Grand Maistre could tell that, for all his show of bravado, he was terrified.

The claim was bravado only, no one of the Shinook would take a Mountie into their midst, but it was a place to continue her investigation.

She tossed it off with nonchalance, but there was hurt beneath her bravado.

With no audiences for his bravado, the self-styled Prince of Potcher was soon left with only a few score giddy boys and girls with longbows and a dozen suicidal bomb-throwers whose numbers were reduced each time they acted.

This was calculated bravado, intended to prove to all the young troopies that Sten was so confident that he could doze before action.

Martian debacle, built and hurled at the nearest of the habitable worlds indicated on the Martian astrogation charts with the bravado of a Molotov cocktail hurled at a tank.

Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.

For an incredible moment in time the King held the bridge, facing down a numberless host as much by bravado as skill at arms, a deed to be told and retold long afterward.

There was no bullying or backstabbing, no need for false pretenses or bravado.

His first experience of being under fire, and the new troops arriving in the carracks, had frightened the bravado out of him.

So in the midst of the attempt to order the steamboats into a convoy for the passage upstream, two big rowboats swung out into the river, with six men pulling at the oars of each and another dozen or so under arms, many of them foolishly standing up and huzzahing their own bravado.

The bravado with which Baden carried himself on this day had none of the power or substance or self-assurance he had shown the day before.

As he spoke I studied the coarse map of his features, trying to read its micro-expressions, and I concluded that for all his bravado, Childers was afraid.

Long ago, during the thousand-year war that had ended so abruptly with the fake Cylon peace offer and their subsequent annihilative ambush, Adama and Tigh had been combat pilots together, sharing a reputation for bravado and accomplishment much like that enjoyed presently by the brash and daring young lieutenants Starbuck and Boomer.