1857: Terence, Edward St. John Parry, Comoediae sex, p111Kings are stock characters in plays as well as slaves and braggadocii.
1890: Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries, p132Every fellow that you meet upon track near Stockton or Austin City, walks as though he were defying lightning, yet this without silly struts or braggadocii.
1849–1852: Peter Lund Simmonds & William Henry Giles Kingston, Colonial Magazine and East India Review, p230The second volume consists of a gossiping set of letters from Florence, on art and artists, in which occur many sensible remarks with much trash and braggadocii.
