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Gascon definition

Gas·con (gas′kən)

adjective

  1. of Gascony or its people or culture
  2. like or characteristic of this people, reputed to be boastful

Etymology: Fr < L Vasco (gen. Vasconis), a Basque

noun

  1. a person born or living in Gascony
  2. a boaster; swaggerer

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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