Definition of "gascon" [gascon]

• A boastful person; a braggart. (noun)

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• "Jarrard Cole, Assistant Multimedia Editor, The Daily Tar Heel sami gascon 1 year ago incredible... really cool!"
• "It's like a trou gascon — the neat shot of Armagnac tossed back midmeal to ready you for cassoulet."
• "The cuisinier gascon uses the basic mixtures much less than do other eighteenth-century cooks, considering them a trifle old-fashioned: “I will not speak at all of jus, coulis, bouillon, essence, and all those old liaisons which are made; they are found in the book of Martialot [sic] in his old manuscripts [sic].”"