chanson de geste
Americannoun
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
As the comparison of the Conqu�te de Constantinoble with a chanson de geste is inevitable, so is that of Froissart’s Chronique with a roman d’aventures.
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 Saintsbury, George
William Short Nose is also from the chanson de geste of that hero.
From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)
Gaston Paris defined a chanson de geste as a song the subject of which is a series of historical facts or gesta.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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