gest
noun
a story or tale.
geste
-
a variation of
gest.
Example Sentences
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Still, in city politics, even the beau geste can be fraught.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
Starbucks’ successful seduction of the notoriously finicky New York City consumer began with a dramatic grande geste.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2012
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides that final beau geste she left behind a haunting epitaph, claiming she was a great actress because "she had acted on the last day of her life."
From Time Magazine Archive
All the best of the early chansons de geste are written in ten-syllable verse, divided into stanzas or laisses of different length, united by a single assonance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
