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Gest
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance. archaic, countable, uncountable
"The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso."
- 2 Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”). alt-of, alternative, obsolete
"[…]Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?"
- 3 An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. archaic, countable, uncountable
"a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified"
- 4 Bearing; deportment. archaic, countable, uncountable
"through his heroic grace and honorable gest"
- 5 A gesture or action. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
A variant of gist (“resting-place”).
From the German surname, related to geest (“sandy area”).
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