gasconade
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This gasconade is backed up by the nearby portraits he made of other artists indebted to his influence: Basquiat, Clemente, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the opinion of some observers, Senator Glass's gasconade was all that had been necessary to "terminate the practice" without further ado.
From Time Magazine Archive
They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the quiet precincts of his contracted quarters he issued several proclamations, which teemed with gasconade and valiant promises, of which the following is a sample: Ludlow St. Jail, New York, June 11, 1866.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by John A. (John Alexander) MacDonald
The big painter, in his full-blooded, boyish fashion, fairly gasconaded over the success of his exhibit.
From Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott
The English reproach the French with gasconade, but they never gasconaded as the English do now.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
"Oh, he is the most famous Gascon that has ever gasconaded on the earth; with that, a figure indescribable and assurance unbounded; and as to the rest, sufficient courage."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
“I found more champions than anyone in history,” Van Pelt says without a hint of gasconading.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Your turn for gasconading, Laird of M'Aulay, is too well known, that men of honour should regard your vaunts.
From A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott
Poor Flinter! a braver heart and a more gasconading mouth were surely never united in the same body.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
It was the forced realization of all those gasconading manifestos, which for the last two years had breathed war and defiance against the United States.
From History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Brantz Mayer
