Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To tell stories or gests.
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Examples
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MYSELF: But don't you like the "geste" I'm writing?
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Anyhow, it was their legacy to apportion as they saw fit, since it was they who had led the two crucial wars that formed the bookends, as it were, to this episode; and they never admired the D'Annunzio-style "grande geste" of a Moshe Dayan (also Begin's Foreign Minister at the time), Begin, or an Ariel Sharon.
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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Ce serait un geste honorable qui ferait baisser la pression sur la ministre, et qui éviterait que la suspicion ne s'installe au sein du caucus adéquiste.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Anyhow, it was their legacy to apportion as they saw fit, since it was they who had led the two crucial wars that formed the bookends, as it were, to this episode; and they never admired the D'Annunzio-style "grande geste" of a Moshe Dayan (also Begin's Foreign Minister at the time), Begin, or an Ariel Sharon.
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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Anyhow, it was their legacy to apportion as they saw fit, since it was they who had led the two crucial wars that formed the bookends, as it were, to this episode; and they never admired the D'Annunzio-style "grande geste" of a Moshe Dayan (also Begin's Foreign Minister at the time), Begin, or an Ariel Sharon.
Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments) Robert Eisenman 2010
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I wondered just what the price of those might be, considering we'd just unburdened the dealer of the blanket... and wouldn't it only be fair to receive a discount on the next purchase the ol' "petit geste commercial"?
Brocante / Antiques 2010
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The idea of a wicked fairy cursing a child at a christening goes back to a tale of the chansons de geste.
Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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The idea of a wicked fairy cursing a child at a christening goes back to a tale of the chansons de geste.
Fairy Godmothers elena maria vidal 2009
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Nous vous proposons un instant dans votre journée ou votre semaine pour faire rayonner l'amour tout autour de vous, par une parole, un geste, une action ou tout simplement par une pensée.
Archive 2009-02-15 2009
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There could have been no fitter nor more touching a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation than their ` beau geste.
Eric Margolis: The Dead Remind Europe Of The Folly Of War 2009
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