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
Pennell's Pen Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe—Etchers and Etching.
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
The captain of Le Genereux, in an official letter of true French gasconade, describes the Leander as carrying "seventy-four guns, twenty-four, and thirty pounders on the lower deck, and twelve pounders on the upper!"
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by Harrison, James
The big painter, in his full-blooded, boyish fashion, fairly gasconaded over the success of his exhibit.
From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy
"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 Sue, Eugène
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 Adams, Abigail
“I found more champions than anyone in history,” Van Pelt says without a hint of gasconading.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Meanwhile Mexico continued to excite our curiosity by spasmodic struggles in nerving her people for the war, as well as by gasconading despatches which breathed relentless animosity to our country for the annexation of Texas.
From History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Mayer, Brantz
"We have," he continued in loud tone and gasconading temper, "proved ourselves the superiors of the City and County, government, and of the State government; and if the Federal government dares"—He got no further.
From The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by O'Meara, James
"Ah, ah!" said Porthos, looking at D'Artagnan, to whose gasconading he had never been able quite to accustom himself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
It was the forced realization of all those gasconading manifestos, which for the last two years had breathed war and defiance against the United States.
From History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Mayer, Brantz
