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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'Gasconade' Resulted in 2 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 2 Definitions Gasconade noun  (alternative spelling of, gasconade) verb (Gasconad, es) (alternative spelling of, gasconade)       gasconade noun  (obsolete, derogatory) Boastful talk. 1782, W. Cunningham Mallory, translation of Confessions by w:Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Book III http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/r/rousseau/jean_jacques/r864c/book3.html: "This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre " 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'" 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, wikisource:Virginibus_Puerisque CHAPTER_III_-_AN_APOLOGY_FOR_IDLERS, Virginibus Puerisque Chapter III: "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 ." Translations:  German: Gascognade verb (gasconad, es) (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully. 1817, review of "Wilks's Historical Sketches of the South of India," in The Quarterly Review http://books.google.com/books?id=EsZK0EUNHc0C, page 57: "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." 1847, Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan, Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain http://books.google.com/books?id=4ps2AAAAMAAJ, page 246: "...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..." Etymology: Possibly from 18th-century slang "Gascon" (a braggart).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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