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Webster 1913 Edition


Gascon

Gas′con

(?; F. ?)
,
Adj.
[F.]
Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.
Noun.
A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See
Gasconade
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gascon

GAS'CON

,
Noun.
A native of Gascony in France.

Definition 2024


Gascon

Gascon

See also: gascon

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Gascon (plural Gascons)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France. [from 14th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.8:
      I am a Gascoine, and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.
    • 1948, ‘The New Pictures’, Time, 1 Nov.:
      Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.
  2. (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.

Translations

Adjective

Gascon (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Gascony.
  2. (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

Translations

Proper noun

Gascon

  1. The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French gascon, from Old French, from Latin plural Vascōnēs.

Noun

Gascon m (plural Gascons, feminine Gasconne)

  1. Gascon person

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gascon

gascon

See also: Gascon

French

Adjective

gascon m (feminine singular gasconne, masculine plural gascons, feminine plural gasconnes)

  1. Gascon

Noun

gascon m (uncountable)

  1. Gascon

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Occitan

Noun

gascon m (plural gascons, feminine gascona, feminine plural gasconas)

  1. (uncountable) Gascon dialect
  2. (countable) Gascon (person)

Adjective

gascon m (feminine singular gascona, masculine plural gascons, feminine plural gasconas)

  1. Gascon (all meanings)

Old French

Adjective

gascon m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gascone)

  1. Gascon (all meanings)

Declension