gest

Meaning

  1. A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
  2. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
  3. Bearing; deportment.
  4. (obsolete) A gesture or action.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/d͡ʒɛst/
Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.

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