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gasconade

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gas⋅con⋅ade

  [gas-kuh-neyd] noun, verb, -ad⋅ed, -ad⋅ing.
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–noun
1. extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
–verb (used without object)
2. to boast extravagantly; bluster.
Origin:
1700–10; < F gasconnade, deriv. of gasconner to boast, chatter. See Gascon, -ade 1

Related forms:
gas⋅con⋅ad⋅er, noun
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gas·con·ade   (gās'kə-nād')   
n.  Boastfulness; bravado.

[French gasconnade, from Gascon, Gascon; see Gascon.]
gas'con·ade' v., gas'con·ad'er n.
Gas·con·ade   (gās'kə-nād')   
A river rising in the Ozark Plateau of south-central Missouri and flowing about 426 km (265 mi) generally northeast to the Missouri River east of Jefferson City.
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