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Definition of Gesticulators
1. gesticulator [n] - See also: gesticulator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesticulators
Literary usage of Gesticulators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"The amusement consists of athletic dancing, in all the lower modes of that art,
of interludes by maskers, mimics, and gesticulators, and of the ancient ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"... paints Harlequin and his brother gesticulators after the life; the perpetual
trembling motion of their limbs, their ludicrous and flexible gestures, ..."
3. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"... skies: into which a self-respecting sober Northener of the Isles could imagine
himself to kick enthusiastic gesticulators, if it were polite to do so. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1878)
"... he never quite knew how, in dragging up from under the feet of stupid starers
and gesticulators the woman he had seen felled to the ground, ..."
5. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"Most of our old comedians professed every part of the histrionic science, and
were occasionally fidlers, dancers, and gesticulators. Dekker says, Tarleton ..."
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