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▪ I. gasconade, n.|gæskəˈneɪd|
Also 8 gasconnade.
[a. F. gasconnade: see prec. and -ade.]
Extravagant boasting; vain-glorious fiction.
1709Steele Tatler No. 115 ⁋5 That Figure of Speech which is commonly distinguish'd by the Name of Gasconade. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xliv. (1804) 287 He recounted his victory with many exaggerations and gasconades. 1776J. Q. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 400 The reports of fifty-five thousand men coming against us, are chiefly ministerial gasconade. 1818Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 244/2 In their criticisms upon American gasconade, they forget that vulgar people of all countries are full of gasconade. 1874Green Short Hist. x. §1. 736 The occasional gasconade of the young soldier of thirty-three.
attrib.1841Lever C. O'Malley li. 261 The gasconade tone of the Frenchman would peep through.
▪ II. gasconade, v.|gæskəˈneɪd|
[f. prec. Cf. F. gasconner.]
intr. To indulge in gasconades; to boast extravagantly.
1727Boyer Dict. Angl.-Fr., To Gasconade, faire des Gasconnades. 1778J. Q. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 352 The English reproach the French with gasconade, but they never gasconaded as the English do now. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary II. 442, I should hope that he was gasconading a little when he spoke to the officers. 1853C. L. Brace Home Life Germany 139 Though under a severe temptation..I did not gasconade, and they all listened courteously.
Hence gascoˈnading vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a. Also gascoˈnader, a braggart, boaster.
1745Gentl. Mag. 609/1 Notwithstanding their gasconading in the Caledonian Mercury, &c. the number of the rebels does not exceed six thousand. 1753Old & New Interest 63 But then these Gascoignaders..Your Lands and Lives wou'd have. 1753in Scots Mag. Apr. 198/1 A monument..with a gasconading inscription. 1793A. Young Examp. France (ed. 3) 119 Their gasconading decree of war..is an effort of despair. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 174 The B. people..must have been braggers born— a whole parish of gasconaders. 1856Olmsted Slave States 302 The gasconading mountebank who was elected governor. 1859Thackeray Virgin. II. 337 We are in the habit of laughing at our French neighbours for boasting, gasconading, and so forth. |