Gasconade

 WORD OF THE DAY

gasconade / noun / gas-kuh-NAYD

Definition
1a: bravado
1b: boasting

Examples
"His malevolence was only equalled by his audacity,—and this was, if possible, surpassed by his gasconade."
— Nathaniel Pitt Langford, Vigilante Days and Ways, 1996

His early career was marked by the sort of gasconade many fans of the NFL had come to adore and many MLB executives and players had come to loathe.
— Robert Klemko, The MMQB, 13 July 2017

Did You Know?
The citizens of Gascony in southwestern France have proverbially been regarded as prone to bragging.
Their reputation has been immortalized in such swashbuckling literary works as Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" and Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac".
Linguistically, the legend survives in the word gascon, meaning "a swaggering person" or "braggart," as well as in gasconade itself.