subs. phr. (old).Grandiloquence; HIGH-FALUTING (q.v.); FLEET-STREETESE (q.v.).
1589. PUTTENHAM, Art of English Poesie, vii. 173. Their BOMBARD PHRASE, their foot and half foot words.
1601. MUNDAY, The Death of Robert Earle of Huntingdon, ii. 2.
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1650. HOWELL, Familiar Letters. A warrior appointed by heaven in the edge of the sword, a persecutor of his enemies, a most perfect jewell of the blessed tree, the chiefest keeper of the crucified God, etc., with other such BOMBARDICALL titles.