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
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
To reporters La Jolie Jeanne delivered this charming gasconade: "Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" the manifesto began.
From Time Magazine Archive
They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy.
From Time Magazine Archive
They seemed again ready and eager to believe all the unsupported assertions which the Northern Democrats, in a spirit of effrontery and not without gasconade, ventured to put forth.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
"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
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
“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
The impropriety of a traveller’s setting at naught the regulations of a foreign State is clear enough, and the bad taste of compassing such a purpose by mere gasconading is still more glaringly plain.
From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake
The first severe battles made an end of the greater part of this gasconading.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox
For the rest, I calmly went on with my eulogy on courage; only that, instead of ludicrous gasconading, which directly betrays the coward, I purposely expressed myself in words at once cool, clear and firm.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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