gasconade
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of gasconade
First recorded in 1650–60; from French gasconnade, derivative of gasconner “to boast, chatter”; see Gascon, -ade 1
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This gasconade is backed up by the nearby portraits he made of other artists indebted to his influence: Basquiat, Clemente, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the opinion of some observers, Senator Glass's gasconade was all that had been necessary to "terminate the practice" without further ado.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pennell's Pen Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe—Etchers and Etching.
From Time Magazine Archive
The captain of Le Genereux, in an official letter of true French gasconade, describes the Leander as carrying "seventy-four guns, twenty-four, and thirty pounders on the lower deck, and twelve pounders on the upper!"
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James
"Oh, he is the most famous Gascon that has ever gasconaded on the earth; with that, a figure indescribable and assurance unbounded; and as to the rest, sufficient courage."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène
The English reproach the French with gasconade, but they never gasconaded as the English do now.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
The big painter, in his full-blooded, boyish fashion, fairly gasconaded over the success of his exhibit.
From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy
“I found more champions than anyone in history,” Van Pelt says without a hint of gasconading.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
In place of gasconading, a sort of desperation, and hydrophobia from excess of water, is threatening to supervene.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
She was the most marauding Army lately seen, also the most gasconading, and had the least capacity for fighting: three worse qualities no army could have.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas
What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles.
From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte
Notwithstanding the warlike despatches, speeches, and proclamations of the Mexicans in the earlier part of the year, our secretary of state seems to have sufficiently understood their gasconading habits, to disregard these inflated productions.
From History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Mayer, Brantz
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