gasconade

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But for him, regicide and court-spy, for him who patronised Lebon and betrayed Demerville, for him who wantoned alternately in gasconades of Jacobinism and gasconades of servility, what excuse has the largest charity to offer?

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

His gasconades had frequently roused Mirabeau from his reveries, and of this he was not a little proud.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

This French word signified a sort of sport much used among the French chivalry, which consisted in vying with each other in making the most romantic gasconades.

From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir

Never did writer more intrepidly hoax his readers, never were readers more indulgent to an author's gasconades.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

I had already descried what a peaceful family life—upright, pure, and devoted—my friend Meurtrier hid under his chimerical gasconades.

From Ten Tales by Learned, Walter