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Definition of Gasconaders
1. gasconader [n] - See also: gasconader
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasconaders
Literary usage of Gasconaders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Napoleon in Caricature 1795-1821 by Alexander Meyrick Broadley, John Holland Rose (1911)
"Generals Retreating " (Humphrey, May 3o).1 Of the eight caricatures on the subject
of the Russian Campaign published as a series by Tegg, " gasconaders, ..."
2. The Life of William H. Seward by Frederic Bancroft (1900)
"... to betray and sell the holiest hopes and interests of freedom under the terror
of the gasconaders," whose threats he considered to be merely " old, ..."
3. The Poetical Works by Horace Smith (1846)
"... That greatest boasters do the least, And whisper'd to himself—" The Dover
traders Are most insufferable gasconaders; If any folks deserve an innuendo, ..."
4. Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty by Alexander Graydon (1811)
"... or at least is considered to be so, in a French one, since, of all the
gasconaders in the world,the Gallic commanders must confessedly take ..."
5. Autobiography of William H. Seward from 1801 to 1834: With a Memoir of His by William Henry Seward, Frederick William Seward (1891)
"... and the four o'clock descent of Capitol Hill. We begin to see light here.
The gasconaders of the South find themselves in convention at ..."
6. Memorials of the Civil War: Comprising the Correspondence of the Fairfax by Robert Bell (1849)
"... shoals of street brawlers and tavern gasconaders ; and from these dregs of
the English population was generated a new race of roarers and cut-purses, ..."
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