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Spread-Eagle

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(a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Spread-Eagle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/spread-eagle.html. 1828.
 
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