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Gasconade

Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, n. [F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting.] A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
--Swift.

Gasconade

Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gasconaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gasconading.] To boast; to brag; to bluster.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gasconade

1709 (n.); 1727 (v.), from French gasconade (see Gascon + -ade); from gasconner (16c.) "to boast, brag," literally "to talk like a Gascon."

Wiktionary
gasconade
  1. (context obsolete English) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic. n. Boastful talk. v

  2. (context obsolete derogatory English) To talk boastfully.

WordNet
gasconade
  1. n. an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting]

  2. v. show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt]

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Gasconade, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 267
Housing Units (2000): 141
Land area (2000): 0.208511 sq. miles (0.540042 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.208511 sq. miles (0.540042 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26578
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.670790 N, 91.559140 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Gasconade
Gasconade -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 15342
Housing Units (2000): 7813
Land area (2000): 520.668439 sq. miles (1348.525009 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.426543 sq. miles (14.054682 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 526.094982 sq. miles (1362.579691 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.449325 N, 91.512590 W
Headwords:
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Gasconade, MO
Gasconade County
Gasconade County, MO
Wikipedia
Gasconade

Gasconade may refer to:

Places:

  • Gasconade County, Missouri
  • Gasconade, Missouri, a town in Missouri
  • Gasconade River, a river in the Ozarks

Other:

  • Gasconade may indicate bravado

Usage examples of "gasconade".

At these reunions I had to play the part of host--to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks-- all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St.

Great Britain will rise superior to all the gasconade of the little, wicked American politicians.

A vein of gasconade appears in most of his letters, not however accompanied with any conclusive evidence of a real wish to fight.

They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on.

The big painter, in his full-blooded, boyish fashion, fairly gasconaded over the success of his exhibit.

State is clear enough, and the bad taste of compassing such a purpose by mere gasconading is still more glaringly plain.

I was desperately sorry for him, for behind his light gasconading manner there were marks of acute suffering, and indeed in his case I think I should have gone crazy.

Women mobbed him at the stage door and young college men kept the programs of his plays tacked to the walls of their rooms and, he said, tried to imitate the inimitable toss of his head, his graceful gasconading stride, his delightful smile.

If ever the four riders of the Apocalypse appeared in the flesh, it would be in the form of the four men gasconading down the road toward the small kirk where she and the other women had taken refuge.

At these reunions I had to play the part of host--to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks-- all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St.