Both Uses
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Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
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- Thus the heroe is always introduced with a flourish of drums and trumpets, in order to rouse a martial spirit in the audience, and to accommodate their ears to bombast and fustian, which Mr Locke's blind man would not have grossly erred in likening to the sound of a trumpet.†
Book 4 *
- Sophia, confused as she was, answered this bombast (and very properly I think) with a look of inconceivable disdain.†
Book 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(bombastic) pompous or pretentious talk or writing
(often using difficult words in an attempt to make something sound more important than it is or to make the speaker sound more intelligent) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)