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

Pennell's Pen Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe—Etchers and Etching.

From Time Magazine Archive

They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy.

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

But will not the same men who glory in this great event, even in the midst of a gasconade, turn to a foreigner, and ask him, 'What is the latest fashion in Europe?'

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.