noun | gas-kuh-NAYD
Gasconade is confident talk
or behavior that is intended to impress other people.
The citizens of Gascony in
southwestern France have proverbially been regarded as prone to bragging. Their
reputation has been immortalized in such swashbuckling literary works as
Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac.
Linguistically, the legend survives in the word gascon, meaning "a
swaggering person" or "braggart," as well as in gasconade
itself.