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gesticulant

American  
[je-stik-yuh-luhnt] / dʒɛˈstɪk yə lənt /

adjective

  1. making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations.

    a gesticulant speaker.


Etymology

Origin of gesticulant

First recorded in 1875–80; gesticul(ate) + -ant

Example Sentences

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A rabbi played by the charismatic Duane Cooper, for example, sometimes thunders with the rich baritone and gesticulant flourishes of a Baptist preacher, and then abruptly starts lilting and shrugging like Billy Crystal.

From New York Times

For the figure of the ungainly foe would stride across the delicious vision, huge against the waves like Cyclops, and like him gesticulant, but unhappily not so single-eyed that the slippery fair might despise him.

From Project Gutenberg