gascon a de

[Fr. gasconnade, from Gascon =an inhabitant of Gascony, a district the inhabitants of which had the reputation of being great boasters and blusterers.] A boast or boasting; bravado, bluster, vaunting, bragging. "I tell you, without any gasconade , that I had rather be banished for my whole life."- Bolingbroke : Letter to the Earl of Peter borough . găs-con-ā de, v. i. [GASCONADE, 8.] To boast, to brag, to bluster.