8 July 2016
gasconade
[gas-kuh-neyd]
noun
1. extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
verb (used without object), gasconaded, gasconading.
2. to boast extravagantly; bluster.
Origin of gasconade
French
1700-1710; < French gasconnade, derivative of gasconner to boast, chatter. See Gascon, -ade1
Related forms
gasconader, noun
Dictionary.com
Examples from the Web for gasconade
Historical Examples
Colonel Carr, with a cavalry division, was sent to the line of the gasconade, to watch the movements of the enemy.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field
Thomas W. Knox
But the officers who lead the troops do not allow their enemies the monopoly of gasconade.
Romantic Spain
John Augustus O’Shea
My gasconade delighted the old lady and she gave me a heap of sweetmeats to recover her place in my good graces.
Trafalgar
Benito Prez Galds
Anagram
adages con
aced a song
can dosage
a snag code
Today’s quote
First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
On this day
8 July 1822 – death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet, considered to be one the finest lyric poets of all time. Born 4 August 1792.
8 July 1947 – reports are that a UFO crash-landed at Roswell, New Mexico.
8 July 1954 – Military leader, Castillo Armas seizes power of Guatamala in a CIA-backed coup, overthrowing Communist president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. The coup was part of the CIA’s international anti-communist activities. On request of the CIA, Armas formed the National Committee of Defense Against Communism, which is recognised as Latin America’s first modern death squad, purging the government and trade unions of people with suspected left-wing tendencies. Armas introduced the ‘Preventive Penal Law Against Communism’ which increased penalties for ‘Communist’ activities, such as labor union activities. Armas was assassinated on 26 July 1957 by a palace guard, Romeo Vásquez. It is unknown what Vásquez’s motive was. He was found dead in a suspected suicide a short while later.
8 July 1980 – First State of Origin match played between New South Wales and Queensland at Lang Park (Suncorp Stadium), Brisbane. Queensland won 20-10.