▪ I. † braˈvade Obs.
[a. F. bravade, (according to Littré) ad. It. bravata bragging, boasting, f. bravare to brag, boast, f. bravo: see brave. Cf. also Sp. bravada, and see -ade.]
= bravado.
| 1579 J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf C vj, Euen so will it be harder then yron for Englishmen to digest..the french insolencies and disdaynefull brauades. 1676 Packet Adv. to Men of Shaftesb. 40 What occasion or need his Lordship had of this high Bravade. 1778 Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 80 He..disregarded this vain bravade. 1833 Fraser's Mag. VIII. 304 He ventured, by way of bravade, upon a single glass of claret. |
▪ II. † braˈvade, v. arch. or Obs.
[f. prec. n.]
1. intr. To look brave, assume a bold or defiant front. to bravade the street: to swagger along it.
| 1634–46 Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 464 Ilk shaimles lowne, With his silk goune, Bravades the street. 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ord. C iij, The Archbishop of Spalato commeth forth..stoutly brandishing and bravading. 1667 R. Law Mem. (1818) 18 The Dutch fleet bravading there attacks the river. |
2. trans. To dare, brave, defy.
| 1676 Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 479 The Dutch navy bravades the English upon their coast. |
Hence braˈvading vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1812 J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 88 Many..wrote and spoke of this bravading..with much applause. 1820 Scott Monast. ix, Listening to the bravading tales of gay Christie. 1823 Blackw. Mag. XIII. 278 Sir Joshua..with his arm a-kimbo, bravading cap, and chosen air of importance. |