a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful.
(lowercase) a boaster or braggart.
pertaining to Gascony or its people.
(lowercase) boastful; bragging.
a native or inhabitant of Gascony
the dialect of French spoken in Gascony
1325–75; Middle English gascoyne, gascoun < Old French, ultimately < Latin Vascōnēs the inhabitants of the Basque country and adjacent areas
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A recent study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of California, Berkeley, found that Krasner and Bragg are more well known than Gascon, Schmidt, or Boudin.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2025
Gascon said that if only 6% of Canadian exports currently bound for the U.S. shift to the Port of Montreal, the port would reach its capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
George Gascon to centralize criminal filings electronically, according to current Dist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2025
Moore's win came at the expense of Emilia Perez rival Karla Sofia Gascon, whose past tweets caused a significant fallout.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
"This young man is the one Blanche was going to marry," said the Gascon to himself, as he disengaged himself from Urbain's grasp.
From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de
Nearly as large as Hackett's Falstaff, he was as much a gascon as the hero of the Merry Wives of Windsor.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace
You know, Comrades, I only said that en gascon, and to afford him the greater pleasure in our rencontre.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James
A wit without sense, without fancy, a beau, Like a parrot he chatters, and struts like a crow; A peacock in pride, in grimace a baboon, In courage a hind, in conceit a gascon.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
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