GASCONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gascony mean? 

• GASCONY (noun)
  The noun GASCONY has 1 sense:

1. a region of southwestern France

  Familiarity information: GASCONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASCONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of southwestern France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gascogne; Gascony

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 

“Methinks that Gascony is too small a cock to crow so lustily.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Then we shall still hold Gascony and Guienne?” cried Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir John Charnell, Lord Audley, you do not doubt the courage of our friends of Gascony?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is as well, remarked Terlake; for methinks, my fair lord, that we are not the only ones who are waiting a passage to Gascony.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Black hound of Gascony, he muttered, evil the day that you and those like you set foot in free England!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But you hear, my lords of Gascony, that these gentlemen had no thought to throw a slur upon your honor or your valor, so let all anger fade from your mind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I might chance to see hotter service in Hampshire than I have ever done in Gascony.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Fry them in oil with a dressing of Gascony,' quoth he, and then swore at me because I had not been the cook.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind them they could still catch a glimpse of the gray plains of Gascony, and could see her rivers gleaming like coils of silver in the sunshine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Could they not set up five archers for the honor of Aquitaine and of Gascony?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)