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tirade(dictionary)

tirade (iou)



tirade noun & verb. E19.
[French from Italian tirata volley, from tirare from Proto-Romance verb meaning 'draw': cf. TIRE verb2.]
A. noun.
A long vehement speech on some subject; a declamation, a denunciation. E19.
P. Carey Her mother delivered a long tirade against Irishmen.
A passage of a poem dealing with a single theme or idea. E19.
Music. An ornamental run or flourish filling an interval between two notes. L19.
b. verb intrans. Utter or write a tirade; declaim vehemently. L19.