It's like a trou gascon — the neat shot of Armagnac tossed back midmeal to ready you for cassoulet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grapes of Gascony] Reference

Quand Robespierre fut guillotiné, un officier gascon de l'armée française exprima ainsi l'effroi que lui avait inspiré ce tyran.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

With the advent of the gascon Henri de Béarn this delightful little unspoiled corner of old Paris took on the aspect which it now has.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Murat's gascon envy and resentment and made him once more a tool in the hand of the Emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

Canadians, especially, who, with their constitutional vivacity, have a considerable dash of the gascon, were buoyant and boastful, and great brag arts as to the future; while all those who had been in the service of the Northwest Company, and engaged in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference

11:51 Young Geoffrion: And they had each taken a young gascon for a husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

But better that than a otiose gascon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Philosophical Question] Reference

In courage a hind, in conceit a gascon.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference

The cassoulet gascon wouldn't let me down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference