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Gasconism

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See also: gasconism

English

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Etymology

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From Gascon +‎ -ism.

Noun

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Gasconism (countable and uncountable, plural Gasconisms)

  1. Bragging; boastfulness.
  2. A Gascon idiom or expression.
    • 1898, Mary E. Lowndes, Michel de Montaigne: A Biographical Study, page 159:
      So that the Latinisms — as again the Gasconisms that betray his origin, — are assimilated into the substance of his writing rather than appended as foreign elements.

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