gascon

Example Sentences

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Nearly as large as Hackett's Falstaff, he was as much a gascon as the hero of the Merry Wives of Windsor.

From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace

You know, Comrades, I only said that en gascon, and to afford him the greater pleasure in our rencontre.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James

A wit without sense, without fancy, a beau, Like a parrot he chatters, and struts like a crow; A peacock in pride, in grimace a baboon, In courage a hind, in conceit a gascon.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan