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GASCONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region of southwestern France
Synonyms:
Gascogne; Gascony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
French region (a geographical subdivision of France)
Holonyms ("Gascony" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Context examples:
Let them be, and they will think that we are a wine-ship for Gascony, or that we bear the wool-bales of some mercer of the Staple.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here rode dark-browed cavaliers from the sunny south, fiery soldiers from Gascony, graceful courtiers of Limousin or Saintonge, and gallant young Englishmen from beyond the seas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A pair of cold capons, a mortress of brawn, or what you will, with a flask or two of the right Gascony.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whole vast plain of Gascony and of Languedoc is an arid and profitless expanse in winter save where the swift-flowing Adour and her snow-fed tributaries, the Louts, the Oloron and the Pau, run down to the sea of Biscay.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, with this fresh influx of noblemen and cavaliers, food and lodging were scarce to be had, and the prince was hurrying forward his forces to Dax in Gascony to relieve the overcrowding of his capital.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, well, it is no great matter for my Company, for they were all houseled and shriven ere we left Twynham Castle; and Father Christopher of the Priory gave me his word that they were as fit to march to heaven as to Gascony.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It would be strange else, seeing that all the great lords of England and of Gascony are within the walls, and each would have his trumpeter blow as loud as his neighbor, lest it might be thought that his dignity had been abated.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Know then that if these rows were dug up the wealth of the country would be gone, and mayhap there would be dry throats and gaping mouths in England, for in three months' time these black roots will blossom and shoot and burgeon, and from them will come many a good ship-load of Medoc and Gascony which will cross the narrow seas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While I, quoth the other loudly, do maintain the good sense and extraordinary wisdom of that most learned William against the crack-brained fantasies of the muddy Scotchman, who hath hid such little wit as he has under so vast a pile of words, that it is like one drop of Gascony in a firkin of ditch-water.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
