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20 answers for: (Archaic & Literary) A boastful person (6)
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GASCON(Archaic & Literary) A boastful person (6)
CATHAYAn archaic and literary name for China
STEED(Literary) a spirited horse for state or war (5)
THEEArchaic and literary you
DEMOTICModern vernacular form of the Greek language, distinguished from the archaic and literary katharevousa (7)
CROWShort word for a bar of iron with a beak-like end; the triumphant caw of a cockerel; the joyful cry of a baby or of a boastful person; or, a small raven-like bird with a raucous call (4)
GLAIVEArchaic and poetic name for a sword; originally a medieval slicing weapon consisting of a single-edged blade mounted on a long pole (6)
BLOWHARDA setback is difficult for a boastful person (8)
IZZARDArchaic and dialect word for the letter Z, thought to derive from the Old French for 'and zed' (6)
ALBIONArchaic and poetic name for the island of Great Britain (6)
BRAGGARTWhat do we call a boastful person (8)
TRUMPETERMusician perhaps a boastful person? (9)
ARTHURFirst name of the Cornish novelist and literary critic known as "Q" who was a friend of Daphne du Maurier and edited The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (6)
BATMANClub worker and literary hero (6)
SARTREFrench philosopher, novelist and literary critic, died 1980 (6)
DYMENTClifford ___, poet and literary critic born in 1914 (6)
PROUSTMarcel ___, noted French writer and literary critic (6)
EGOISTBoastful person
MASLINLongtime New York Times film and literary critic Janet
NGRAMSGoogle search strings useful to linguists and literary historians