Definition of Gestes

1. geste [n] - See also: geste

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gestes

gestation sac
gestational
gestational oedema
gestational proteinuria
gestational psychosis
gestational trophoblastic disease
gestations
gestative
gestatorial chair
gestatory
geste
gested
gestes (current term)
gestic
gestical
gesticulant
gesticulate
gesticulated
gesticulates
gesticulating
gesticulatingly
gesticulation
gesticulations
gesticulative
gesticulator
gesticulators
gesticulatory

Literary usage of Gestes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury (1892)
"THE CHANSONS DE gestes. THE earliest form which finished literature took in ... These are the Chansons de gestes, so called from their dealing with the ..."

2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... having, in a bull dated 1092, given to the abbey of Confining ourselves to France, we read in the Exploits of King Dagobert (gestes du Roi Dagobert) ..."

3. The History of Chivalry Or Knighthood and Its Times. by Charles Mills (1825)
"... Archers The Black Prince Story of the King's Chivalry England regarded as the Seat of Honour Instance of this Chivalric Heroes in this Reign The gestes ..."

4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"It is a mock-heroic piece, full of broad and extravagant pleasantries, and is rather a loug fabliau tlian a time Chanson de gestes. Among the other chansons ..."

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