subs. phr. (old).—Grandiloquence; HIGH-FALUTING (q.v.); FLEET-STREETESE (q.v.).

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  1589.  PUTTENHAM, Art of English Poesie, vii. 173. Their BOMBARD PHRASE, their foot and half foot words.

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  1601.  MUNDAY, The Death of Robert Earle of Huntingdon, ii. 2.

                        Remember, once
You brav’d us with your BOMBARD boasting words.

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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.

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