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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gasconade.

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Examples

  • The big painter, in his full-blooded, boyish fashion, fairly gasconaded over the success of his exhibit.

    Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

  • However, I gulped down my scruples with the morning cocktail which we all took at the bar of the Widow Joplin, and listened patiently while Mr. Rucker gasconaded about the wonderful shots he had made, the tremendous leaps his horse had taken over gullies and logs.

    Dialect Tales 1883

  • "Goodwill," in which was Captain Knox, who spoke French, and who reports thus in his Diary: "He gasconaded at a most extravagant rate, and gave us to understand that it was much against his will that he was become an

    Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

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