different between showmanship vs bravado

English

Etymology

showman +? -ship

Pronunciation

Noun

showmanship (usually uncountable, plural showmanships)

1. The quality or skill of giving an engaging or compelling performance; a stage presence.

   The act was clean and well-rehearsed, but the performers lacked the showmanship that would have made it great.

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English

Alternative forms

• bravade (obsolete)

Etymology

From French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), from Italian bravata, from verb bravare (“brag, boast”), from bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????v??do?/, /br??v??do?/
• Rhymes: -??d??

Noun

bravado (countable and uncountable, plural bravados or bravadoes)

1. A swaggering show of defiance or courage.
   • 1990 Amy Longsdorf, K.T. Oslin: Personality, Wit and Style To Spare", The Morning Call[1]

     Songs like "Hey Bobby", and "Do Ya" drip with innuendo and sexual bravado.

   • Rosa Mulholland, The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly

     For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by?and?by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.

2. A false show of courage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A swaggerer; a braggart.

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Verb

bravado (third-person singular simple present bravados, present participle bravadoing, simple past and past participle bravadoed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swagger; to brag.