chanson de geste
Americannoun
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chansons de geste
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
But it is in the crowd of looser and later poems, less fully characterized, less steeped in the individuality of their authors, that we can best study the form of the typical chanson de geste.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" 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
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
And the chanson de geste proper, as Frenchmen are entitled to boast, never quite deserts this matière de France.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
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