gasconade

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“Your gasconade and cache of catchphrases, so limiting and reflexive, escalate the emasculation of you by a world whose patience is in nuclear peril,” says the book’s title character.

From Washington Times

For the rest, I calmly went on with my eulogy on courage; only that, instead of ludicrous gasconading, which directly betrays the coward, I purposely expressed myself in words at once cool, clear and firm.

From Project Gutenberg

But those, who know anything of our history or situation, must have the utmost contempt for all these gasconades.

From Project Gutenberg

No one excelled him in ingenuity, eloquence, bombast, gasconade or dialectic skill.

From Project Gutenberg

From what motive this rather exaggerated statement was made, I know not, but am inclined to think it was merely an inclination to indulge in a trifling gasconade.

From Project Gutenberg