tirade
A tirade is a rather derogatory term for a torrent of words or a chatty word effusion. The term refers to a long speech that contains nothing important and a speech or article with aggressive content. Long-winded, hard-to-interrupt ranting is also referred to as "ranting tirade" or "cannonade". If the torrent of words is irrelevant and dictated by hatred, this is also called a hate tirade .
In another meaning of the word, Tirade describes a stanza form in music , in which notes in rapid succession are played in one run.
etymology
The term is a derivation of the French word tirage for "draw, train, route".
Web links
Wiktionary: Tirade - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
