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Gasconade   Listen
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Gasconade  v. i.  (past & past part. gasconaded; pres. part. gasconading)  To boast; to brag; to bluster.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gasconade" Quotes from Famous Books



... merest "fly in amber," He after eagles clamber? Nay, faction's ante-chamber Were fitter place for him, A trifler transitory, To gasconade of "glory"! He'd foul fair France's story, Her lustre pale ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., September 20, 1890 • Various

... in New Orleans was awaited by friends and foes, with bated breath. The conspirators had as yet no intimation of his intentions: Governor Claiborne was torn by suspicion of this would-be savior, for at the very time he was reading Wilkinson's gasconade he received a cryptic letter from Andrew Jackson which ran, "keep a watchful eye on our General and beware of an attack as well from your own country as Spain!" If Claiborne could not trust "our General," whom could ...
— Jefferson and his Colleagues - A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Volume 15 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Allen Johnson

... conversation of the pilot with a strange Captain, which at the time was taken as an isolated case of gasconade peculiar to the man; but which the Captain afterward found to harmonize in sentiment, feeling, and expression with the general character of the people—the only exceptions being ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... my dog and shadow, and generously drop the world a morsel; be not quite so bold when no one thinks of robbing you, and spare your gasconade: the expediency of a sample has been cleverly suggested, and WE ego et canis meus, royal in munificence, do graciously accede. Will this serve the purpose, my ever-pensive public? At any rate, with some aid of intellect in readers, it is happily an extract which explains ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... Thence he marched to Argos, sending before him a requisition for bread. He was answered by the men of Argos that they had no bread, but only powder and ball at his service. This threat, however, proved a gasconade; the Kihaya advanced in three columns; cavalry on each wing, and infantry in the centre; on which, after a single discharge, the Argives fled. [Footnote: It has a sublime effect in the record of this action to hear that the Argives ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey



Words linked to "Gasconade" :   triumph, boast, amplify, crowing, overdraw, swash, vaunt, overstate, puff, vaporing, jactitation, boasting, gloat, brag, hyperbolize, magnify, self-praise, gas, tout, bluster, exaggerate



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