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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 "a swaggering person" or "braggart," as well as in gasconade itself.
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if you believe the gasconade of his memoirs, he pretty much won World War II on his own
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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.
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Robert Klemko, The MMQB, 13 July 2017
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“Gasconade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gasconade. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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Gasconade
geographical name
Gas·co·nade
ˌga-skə-ˈnād 
river 265 miles (426 kilometers) long in south central Missouri flowing northeast into the Missouri River
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