gasconade

noun gas·co·nade \ ˌga-skə-ˈnād \

Examples: gasconade in a Sentence

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Definition of gasconade

: bravado, boasting

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gasconade

intransitive verb

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gasconader

noun

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Examples of gasconade in a Sentence

if you believe the gasconade of his memoirs, he pretty much won World War II on his own

Recent Examples of gasconade from the Web

His early career was marked by the sort of gasconade many fans of the NFL had come to adore and many MLB executives and players had come to loathe.

— robert klemko, The MMQB, "How does Tim Tebow compare up to other two-sport minor leaguers?," 13 July 2017

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Did You Know?

The citizens of Gascony in southwestern France have proverbially been regarded as prone to bragging. Their reputation has been immortalized in such swashbuckling literary works as Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. Linguistically, the legend survives in the word gascon, meaning "braggart," as well as in "gasconade" itself.