Gasconismn.

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Cc4^v/1 Gasconisme..a Gasconism, or Gascoons Expression.

1734 tr. C. Buffier French Gram. 186 Observe that & is added to the word un... But it would be a sort of gasconism to place & before the other units: as, vingt & deux, [etc.].

1844 G. J. Bertinchamp tr. C. P. Girault-Duvivier in National French Gram. (ed. 2) 43 Observe that one says, un pot à l'eau..; and not un pot à eau, which is a gasconism.

1886 W. C. Wilkinson Classic French Course in Eng. iv. 45 Montaigne was a Gascon, and Gasconisms adulterate the purity of his French.

1913 E. L. Adams Word-formation in Provençal i. i. 83 Possibly a gasconism. Thomas says that the suffix -im was common in Gascony.

1974 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 35 193 Montaigne's use of Gasconisms.

2006 D. Trotter in D. Cowling Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France i. 90 Gasconisms..are abundant in both French and Latin documents throughout the medieval and Renaissance period.

1744 French Faith 35 A sort of Gasconism, a Spirit of Vanity and Self-sufficiency, animates them to all Adventures, and they think none too high for them to accomplish.

1805 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 20 Aug. in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) i. App. 2 As I conceive him much of a hypocrite, and possessing great gasconism, I am happy he was not chosen for my voyage.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 444 The old maestro, who, though a man of undoubted genius, was not devoid of a mixture of gasconism.

1848 E. L. Blanchard Adams's Watering-places Eng. I. 2 An old boast of the peasantry was, that the island yielded seven times as much as its inhabitants could consume, a gasconism that must now, however, be taken with some modification.

1915 Theosophical Path Sept. 183 There is a touch, too, of a delightful naive Gasconism: you will find my book, says he, either the best or the worst that ever was written; and you will not find it the worst.