Associations to the word «Gest»

Wiktionary

GEST, noun. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
GEST, noun. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
GEST, noun. (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
GEST, noun. (archaic) bearing; deportment
GEST, noun. (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
GEST, noun. (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats