Both Uses of
machismo
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.†
Chpt 3 *
- When Langdon reached the exit of the park, he swallowed his machismo and jammed on the brakes.†
Chpt 39-40
Definition:
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(machismo) exaggerated masculinity