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prettygoodwordgasconade (gas-kuh-NAYD) - n., extravagant boasting, boastful talk. v., to boast extravagantly, bluster.
In France, the citizens of Gascony have a reputation for talking boastfully (thus the characterizations of D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers and Cyrano de Bergerac), which gave rise to the verb gasconner, literally to talk like a Gascon but used to mean to boast, with its noun instance form gasconade. We adopted the latter in 1709.
---L.
In France, the citizens of Gascony have a reputation for talking boastfully (thus the characterizations of D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers and Cyrano de Bergerac), which gave rise to the verb gasconner, literally to talk like a Gascon but used to mean to boast, with its noun instance form gasconade. We adopted the latter in 1709.
---L.
