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geste

 (jĕst)
n.
Variant of gest.
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gest

or geste

(dʒɛst)

n. Archaic.
1. a metrical romance or history.
2. a story or tale.
3. a deed or exploit.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Old French geste action, exploit < Latin gesta exploits, derivative of gerere to carry on, perform]
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"I tell you, my fair lord," she was saying, "that it is no fit training for a demoiselle: hawks and hounds, rotes and citoles singing a French rondel, or reading the Gestes de Doon de Mayence, as I found her yesternight, pretending sleep, the artful, with the corner of the scroll thrusting forth from under her pillow.
[beaucoup moins que] Ce geste Royal va imprimer une forte impulsion a l'action de l'Agence Bayt Mal Al Qods Acharif et lui permettre ainsi de poursuivre ses programmes visant a preserver la ville sainte et soutenir la resistance de ses habitants, notamment les enfants qui ont eu l'honneur de saluer SAR le Prince Heritier Moulay El Hassan [beaucoup plus grand que], a indique a la presse M.
Zerouati a rappelUu[c] aux jeunes le bon vieux temps et les bons gestes de nos parents pour qui lae1/4aohygiUuA ne et la propretUu[c] Uu[c]taient un devoir sacrUu[c].
Black Jack was another 15 nautical miles away, with Beau Geste, InfoTrack and Wizard chasing.
It covers the great hey-day of the hundred or so Old French chansons de geste ('Songs of great deeds/ heroic action')--1100-1250 CE, preceded by some hundred years of oral history--of which the Song of Roland is the earliest survivor.
"La publication du rapport du Conseil National des Droits de l'Homme (CNDH) et son enterinement par Sa Majeste le Roi, constitue un saut qualitatif sans precedent et un geste qui demontre la maturite du Maroc et sa ferme volonte de s'attaquer aux defis auxquels il doit faire face", a affirme Soenke Schmidt, de la delegation de l'UE a Geneve.
La restitution du geste dans la production de figures parietales ou rupestres est-elle possible et permet-elle d'aller au-dela du simple constat de la forme?
Musique et geste en France de Lully a la Revolution: etudes sur la musique, le theatre et la danse.