"bombard phrase" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, Ben Jonson (author), William Gifford (editor), \"Translations from the Latin Poets\" in The Works of Ben Jonson, p. 853 (Google preview)",
          "text": ". . . Their bombard-phrase, and foot and half-foot words . . ."
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          "ref": "1881 Nov. 12, \"Notes on Books: French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century\" in Notes and Queries, series 6, vol. 4, p. 400 (Google preview)",
          "text": "To the inveterate Hugolater it is probable that his estimate of the author of Les Miserables as a dramatist will seem inadequate; but it is noteworthy that the poverty of Hugo's personages as actual characters, despite their \"bombard phrase,\" receives striking confirmation from one of the greatest of modern French actors."
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        "(obsolete) bombastic language"
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          "text": "To the inveterate Hugolater it is probable that his estimate of the author of Les Miserables as a dramatist will seem inadequate; but it is noteworthy that the poverty of Hugo's personages as actual characters, despite their \"bombard phrase,\" receives striking confirmation from one of the greatest of modern French actors."
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