fanfaron

fanfaron

(ˈfænfəˌrɒn)
n
a boaster, a braggart
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Sans faux-fuyant ni fanfaron, le PPS s'en va resolument graisser les pignons de ses turbos, en misant, comme il est constamment de coutume, sur ses propres potentialites, pour relever le defi de son organisation, mais egalement et surtout, brandir, haut et fort, les avatars a proscrire et les panacees a adopter d'un pays en mal de democratie.
L'autoproclame [beaucoup moins que] roi des Gitans [beaucoup plus grand que] n'etait donc pas qu'un fanfaron : apres avoir cree une enorme surprise en battant samedi dernier Vladimir Klitschko, invaincu depuis 2004, le Britannique Tyson Fury, nouveau champion du monde WBA/IBF/WBO des lourds, espere etre celui qui va reveiller la boxe mondiale.
He has completed two fictions of adapted from Samuel Beckett: Dis Joe (video, 26 mn) and Adieu a l'amour (16mm, 60 mn), scenarios original fiction: La Colline, Les fauves, and Garantie a vie (1994-1997), documentary films Mascarades (52 min video), Fanfaron, Fanfaron - The Brassy bands (52 min video).
fanfaron, si fier de ses "accomplissments" mais si dupe de son
Father and son, Colin and James Little of The Guards, Ireby collected the Championship award with their British Blue cross which was sired by the registered Blue bull Woldnewton Rambo and is out of a pedigree Limousin cow, a daughter of the noted Fanfaron sire.
Paul Phillips, who took a spectacular fall when Fanfaron landed in the ditch, needed treatment to his shoulder and arm by the paramedics, which held up the last race for ten minutes.
From others one can discover much about the theatre that produced them: the stock-type of the 'badin', for instance, in Le Badin qui se loue (XIX), Le Bateleur (XXIII), Jeninot qui fit un roi de son chat (xxv), and Jolyet (XLII); or the 'fanfaron' in Colin, fils de Thevot le maire (XXVIII); the use of disguise is a particular feature of Le Savetier, le moine et la femme (XLIV) and Un Mari jaloux (XLIII).
Tom Scudamore had a ride to forget on Fanfaron in the cross- country chase won by Supreme Charm.
It was a very mixed day for Jamie Osborne who was beaten on odds-on chances in the first two races, one of them in sensational style when 4-9 shot Fanfaron tried to run out and then refused at the second fence in the Paddlesworth Novices' Chase, in which Riparius beat the only other finisher Super Saffron by nine lengths.