gest
suomi-englanti sanakirjagest englanniksi
A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
(RQ:Holinshed Chronicles)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
a. 1639, (w), a sermon
- And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified
(RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes).
(alternative form of)
(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?
(inflection of)
(verb form of)
(senseid) A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accommodation.
A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
(alt form)
late 14th century, Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, ''The Canterbury Tales'', line 1126-1127:
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late 14th century, Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, ''The Canterbury Tales'', line 209-211:
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(alternative form of)
gesture (gl)
a gesture; a motion of the hands
''gäster med gester''
guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal
(soft mutation of)