gasconade

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Boastful talk.

   “[…] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.”

   “If the Author was Jesuite enough to say this to himself, before he wrote it, he may come off. If not, it will prove a most unconscionable Gasconade. Pate ᵃ was never Bishop of Rochester, but of Worcester; he was not Banish'd, but Fed; and this not in King Edward's time, but in King Henry's.”

   “"This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'"”

   “"Just now... a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade."”

   “" The tricks, the Gasconnades, the buffooneries had gone."”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of gasconade.

adj

1. (obsolete)Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.

   “But Poetry and her sister arts are now in the decline; since the Gasconade style is out of date they seem quite at a stand.”

verb

1. (derogatory, obsolete)To talk boastfully.

   “The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded.”

   “[…]he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat[…]”

   “For two hours, [Khrushchev] gasconaded about the tenfold revaluation of the ruble and the abolition of the Soviet income tax by 1965.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of gasconade.

name

1. A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States, named after the Gasconade River.
2. the Gasconade River, a river in Missouri which flows into the Missouri River near the above town.