geste
- noun
- /dʒɛst/
- Archaic
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gesta
- I mean the defense of this country that was conceived in the 19th century and being fought in the 20th, from Beau Geste forts that were built a generation before the trenches of Verdun.
- beau geste
Examples
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Plus un geste!
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Just one of J.J.'s occasional beaux gestes.
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There was no question of the beau geste.
Academic text (1991) -
When Robert made his move, Quand Robert a fait son geste, it was brilliant.
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Well, if it ain't my old pal, Beau Geste.
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Pas un geste.
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Mimicking the psychic inurement of the soldier, the geste gratuit dramatizes the moral amnesia of the battlefield within a civilian arena.
Academic text (2003) -
Beyond that mountain!" he’d holler, a terrycloth dishrag tucked under his baseball cap to keep the sun off his neck, so he looked like someone from Beau Geste or Kim.
Fiction book (1997) -
The medieval poem tells the geste of a brave knight who fought for his kingdom.
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In the literary festival, they presented a geste that recounted heroic deeds from the past.
Synonyms
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5.2
A long story about heroes and their great adventures
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4.3
A story about a brave person who faces danger, for example a knight fighting a dragon
A story about brave adventures of heroes from long ago
A long Old French poem that tells stories of heroic knights and their deeds
A long poem that tells the brave deeds of a hero
Compounds
- Archaic
A long Old French poem that tells stories of heroic knights and their deeds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Geste comes from an old Latin word gesta, from gerere, which means 'to carry' or 'to do'. It shares the same root as gesture, so a geste is a story about brave actions or 'deeds'—think of a famous action that people 'carry out' and then tell about.