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Gasconade

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Gas·con·ade  (gsk-nd)
A river rising in the Ozark Plateau of south-central Missouri and flowing about 426 km (265 mi) generally northeast to the Missouri River east of Jefferson City.
gas·con·ade  (gsk-nd)
n.
Boastfulness; bravado.
[French gasconnade, from Gascon, Gascon; see Gascon.]
gascon·ade v.
gascon·ader n.
gasconade [ˌgæskəˈneɪd] Rare
n
boastful talk, bragging, or bluster
vb
(intr) to boast, brag, or bluster
[from French gasconnade, from gasconner to chatter, boast like a Gascon]
gasconader  n
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Noun1.Gasconadegasconade - an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
brag, bragging, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing, crow
boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise - speaking of yourself in superlatives
Verb1.Gasconadegasconade - show off                            
boast, brag, shoot a line, vaunt, tout, gas, bluster, swash, blow
puff - speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"
exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
crow, gloat, triumph - dwell on with satisfaction


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At these reunions I had to play the part of host--to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks-- all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St.
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* They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on.
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