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noun

Gasconade n. A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gasconade" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be seen respectively two impressions of feet, carved apparently with moccasins, such as are worn at the present day by the Sioux and other Indians. The other specimen is a flat boulder of white quartz, obtained in Gasconade County, Missouri, which bears on one of its sides the mark of a naked foot, each toe being distinctly scooped out and indicated. The footmark is surrounded by a number of cup-shaped depressions. In many parts of Dacotah, where the route is ...

— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan

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... boundary line between the lands of the United States and of the said Indian tribes shall be as follows, viz: Beginning at a point on the Missouri river, opposite to the mouth of the Gasconade river; thence, in a direct course so as to strike the river Jeffreon, at the distance of thirty miles from its mouth, and down the said Jeffreon to the Mississippi; thence, up the Mississippi to the mouth of the Ouisconsin river, and up the same to a point which ...

— Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk • Benjamin Drake

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Words linked to "Gasconade" : jactitation, blow, bluster, shoot a line, gloat, crowing, overstate, boast, self-praise, amplify, tout, crow, line-shooting, overdraw, triumph, vaporing, hyperbolise, vaunt, bragging