英语词汇gasconade的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gasconade. The Gascon inhabitants of Gascony, France, a re- gion and former province near the Spanish border, have tradi- tionally been regarded by other Frenchmen as flamboyantly boastful, a poor people except in bravery and bragging. This tra- dition can be seen in Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, where brave, boastful d’Artagnan is the model of a Gascon. Many old French contes illustrated Gascon braggadocio. One tells of a Gascon being asked how he liked the great Louvre in Paris. “Pretty well,” the braggart replies, “It reminds me of the back part of my father’s stables.” Such stories and the sentiments that inspire them led to the coining of gasconade, “extravagant boast- ing or swashbuckling braggadocio,” a word that became univer- sal because it described so many people other than Gascons.

词汇	gasconade
词源	gasconade. The Gascon inhabitants of Gascony, France, a re- gion and former province near the Spanish border, have tradi- tionally been regarded by other Frenchmen as flamboyantly boastful, a poor people except in bravery and bragging. This tra- dition can be seen in Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, where brave, boastful d’Artagnan is the model of a Gascon. Many old French contes illustrated Gascon braggadocio. One tells of a Gascon being asked how he liked the great Louvre in Paris. “Pretty well,” the braggart replies, “It reminds me of the back part of my father’s stables.” Such stories and the sentiments that inspire them led to the coining of gasconade, “extravagant boast- ing or swashbuckling braggadocio,” a word that became univer- sal because it described so many people other than Gascons.
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