gasconade
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Is gasconade a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.Examples: "But Poetry and her sister arts are now in the decline; since the Gasconade style is out of date they seem quite at a stand."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.Examples: "The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded."; "[…]he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat[…]"; "For two hours, [Khrushchev] gasconaded about the tenfold revaluation of the ruble and the abolition of the Soviet income tax by 1965."Synonyms: bluster, boastderogatoryobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary