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
Meltzer said the woman, Alejandra Gascon, identified her husband as Jeisson Gonzalez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
On accepting the international film prize, the film's director, Jacques Audiard, thanked the cast, including Gascon, as did Saldaña.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
The captured ship arrived very opportunely, and it was instantly awarded by general consent to Le Gascon, a French adventurer who had lately lost his vessel.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
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
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
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
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