chanson de geste
Americannoun
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chansons de geste
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chanson de geste
1865–70; < French: literally, song of deeds; see chanson, gest
Example Sentences
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His sense of conduct had the enameled air of a chanson de geste; by turning himself into an Arthurian legend he could sublimate the horror of war.
From Time Magazine Archive
What these bald statements mean the chanson de geste can tell us better.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
The northern tongue, the langue d'oïl, shows us—in actually known existence, or by reasonable inference that it existed—the national epic or chanson de geste; the southern, or langue d'oc, gives us the Provençal lyric.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
As to the subject, a chanson de geste must be concerned with some event which is, or is supposed to be, historical and French.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
The habit of private wars and of insurrection against the sovereign supply the motives of the chanson de geste, the love of gallantry, adventure and foreign travel those of the romances Arthurian and miscellaneous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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