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Inflated or high-sounding language. Pistol, from Shakespeare's play Henry V, is characterized by his use of bombastic language: ‘Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,/And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.’ can be expressed simply as ‘Hang dogs but not men’.
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