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gesticulant

American

[je-stik-yuh-luhnt] / dʒɛˈstɪk jə lənt /

adjective

making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations.

a gesticulant speaker.

Etymology

Origin of gesticulant

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

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gesticulant

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 Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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