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

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

Pennell's Pen Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe—Etchers and Etching.

From Time Magazine Archive

His late gasconade has done him great mischief; it is said that Charles Ellis disapproved it strongly before he wrote the letter.

From Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of