1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 73 The Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 115. ⁋5 That Figure of Speech which is commonly distinguish'd by the Name of Gasconade.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 65 He recounted his victory with many exaggerations and gasconades.

1754 G. Washington Diary 28 May (1976) 198 The Summons was so insolent, and savoured the Gasconnade so much, that [etc.].

1776 J. Q. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 400 The reports of fifty-five thousand men coming against us, are chiefly ministerial gasconade.

1818 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. (1819) LXII. 140 In their criticisms upon American gasconade, they forget that vulgar people of all countries are full of gasconade.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §1. 736 The occasional gasconade of the young soldier of thirty-three.

1903 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Feb. 175/2 Whosoever entered it must sit..and listen to the imp's interminable gasconade concerning his scandalous career.

1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey vii. 147 He held us all in a child's affection, which his uniform required him to cover with gasconade.

2002 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Apr. 10/4 Honesty and frankness do more for the public's confidence in the medical profession than extravagant boasting or supercilious gasconade.

1714 R. Steele Englishman No. 40. 263 The Gasconade stile is out of Date.

1779 Remembrancer 8 225/2 Such gasconade productions take away from that character of wisdom and serious fortitude, which America hath hitherto supported.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley li. 261 The gasconade tone of the Frenchman would peep through.

1845 ‘De Harno’ Story of Olden Time iv. 155 A knight of the Cross stood armed cap-à-pié, His gasconade air and armour..Proclaim'd him Sir Sigismund Brierleigh.

1714 Mercator 23 Jan. 1/1 We daily send those very Goods to France itself which they Gasconade us so much about.

1795 tr. J.-B. Louvet de Couvray Acct. Dangers 82 The bawlers in the Parisian news-papers, had yet scarcely gasconaded sufficiently the great victory gained over the royalists of Calvados at Vernon.

1837 M. O'Conor Picturesque & Hist. Recoll. 191 The Russians fight, but no bulletins gasconade their victories.

1860 N.-Y. Times 17 Jan. 8/5 It is only those who openly hate the Union per se, that have gasconaded their threats in the House and Senate.

1967 J. P. Reid Chief Justice iii. 27 Not so New Hampshire. Since there were no productive natural resources to proclaim,..her champions gasconaded her native sons, asserting that these incarcerating influences had somehow managed to produce a superior breed of men.

1717 [implied in: D. Defoe Minutes Negotiations M. Mesnager 112 The Mareschal de Villars..in his Gasconading Humour, had boasted in his Letters for a Month before, that he would answer for that Campaign.].

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 133 Archbishop Usher did not Gasconnade, when he..said, that the Roman people cou'd not any where be found so antiently mention'd as Iernis.

1778 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 352 The English reproach the French with gasconade, but they never gasconaded as the English do now.

1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 442 I should hope that he was gasconading a little when he spoke to the officers.

1853 C. L. Brace Home Life Germany 139 Though under a severe temptation..I did not gasconade, and they all listened courteously.

1901 Independent (N.Y.) 9 May 1082/1 His tendency to gasconade,..which after a while grows monotonous.

1956 F. Stanley Clay Allison iv. 96 He gasconaded with big talk regretting that he had only killed six men and he was still below his father's mark.

2001 M. Beschloss Reaching for Glory (2002) iv. 148 After dinner, LBJ gasconaded into the night.