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

To reporters La Jolie Jeanne delivered this charming gasconade: "Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" the manifesto began.

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

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

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 Adams, Abigail