gasconade

plural gasconades · alternative Gasconade

1. countableuncountableBoastful talk.

   " The tricks, the Gasconnades, the buffooneries had gone."

   1924, AEW Mason, “Chapter 23 The Truth about the Clock on the Marquetry Cabinet”, in The House of the Arrow

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   […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.

   1652, Thomas Urquhart, “Εκσκυβαλαυρον [Ekskubalauron] (The Jewel)”, in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, Edinburgh: Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, published 1834, →ISBN, page 217

   If the Author was Jesuite enough to say this to himself, before he wrote it, he may come off. If not, it will prove a most unconscionable Gasconade. Pate ᵃ was never Bishop of Rochester, but of Worcester; he was not Banish'd, but Fed; and this not in King Edward's time, but in King Henry's.

   1687, Reflections on the Historical Part of Church Government, volume 5, Oxford: Theatre, page 60

   "This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'"

   W. Cunningham Mallory

   1782, Jean-Jacques Rousseau [W. Cunningham Mallory], Confessions, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2007, Book III

   "Just now... a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade."

   1874–1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 3, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC

   Nor was the president's talk of abundant and inexhaustible resources mere gasconade.

   1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, page 816

comparative more gasconade · superlative most gasconade · alternative Gasconade

1. obsoleteOf or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.

   But Poetry and her sister arts are now in the decline; since the Gasconade style is out of date they seem quite at a stand.

   1714, Richard Steele, “A Journey to Paris in 1713”, in The Lover, & Selected Papers from "The Englishman", "Town Talk", "The Reader", "The Spinster", Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, published 1889, The Englishman, page 320

present singular third person gasconades · participle present gasconading · participle past gasconaded · past gasconaded · alternative Gasconade

1. derogatoryobsoleteTo talk boastfully.

   For two hours, [Khrushchev] gasconaded about the tenfold revaluation of the ruble and the abolition of the Soviet income tax by 1965.

   1986, Michael Beschloss, Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair, page 64

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   The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded.

   1817, The Quarterly Review, review of "Wilks's Historical Sketches of the South of India", page 57

   […]he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat[…]

   1847, Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan, Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain, page 246

   Synonyms: bluster, boast

plural Gasconades

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gasconade.

1. A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States, named after the Gasconade River.
2. the Gasconade River, a river in Missouri which flows into the Missouri River near the above town.

present singular third person Gasconades · participle present Gasconading · participle past Gasconaded · past Gasconaded

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gasconade.