† gasconadon.
Obsolete.
= gasconade n.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > a boast
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1658 T. St. Serfe tr. M. de Marmet Entertainments of Cours 126 He so handsomely marries jest and earnest, the Gasconado and the Satyr together.
1745 D. Soyer & J. Lockman tr. ‘Monsieur de Blainville’ Trav. III. v. 31 All these pompous Panegyrics are downright Gasconados.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 80 All his auditors knew them to be most incontinent and outrageous gasconadoes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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