Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boastful person; a braggart.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Jarrard Cole, Assistant Multimedia Editor, The Daily Tar Heel sami gascon 1 year ago incredible... really cool!
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It's like a trou gascon — the neat shot of Armagnac tossed back midmeal to ready you for cassoulet.
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It's like a trou gascon — the neat shot of Armagnac tossed back midmeal to ready you for cassoulet.
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The Cuisinier gascon also gives, as Italian, recipes for two varieties of what he calls “strouille,” one sweet and the other savory.27 They appear to be strudels, and I cannot explain their appearance in Italian guise, save that Italian food of all sorts enjoyed a considerable vogue in mid-eighteenth-century France.
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The Cuisinier gascon (Amsterdam, 1740) is not Gascon (although it does contain a recipe for garbure), and there is some question as to whether the author was a cuisinier.
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The cuisinier gascon uses the basic mixtures much less than do other eighteenth-century cooks, considering them a trifle old-fashioned: “I will not speak at all of jus, coulis, bouillon, essence, and all those old liaisons which are made; they are found in the book of Martialot [sic] in his old manuscripts [sic].”
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He neither strains for effect like the cuisinier gascon nor repeats himself mechanically like Vincent La Chapelle.
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The cuisinier gascon uses the basic mixtures much less than do other eighteenth-century cooks, considering them a trifle old-fashioned: “I will not speak at all of jus, coulis, bouillon, essence, and all those old liaisons which are made; they are found in the book of Martialot [sic] in his old manuscripts [sic].”
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Marin (the author of Les Dons de Comus), Menon (whose work spans both haute cuisine and bourgeois cooking), and the anonymous authors of the Cuisinier gascon and the Soupers de la cour were the rulers of this new empire.
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Marin ranks with Menon and above the compiler of the Cuisinier gascon among the chief cookbook writers of his day.
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