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Definition of Gests
1. gest [n] - See also: gest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gests
Literary usage of Gests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"8 Wouldst haue a friend, wouldst knowe what friend is best ? Haue God thy friend,
who passeth all the rest. 102. 1 Posies for the gests chamber. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... and at no time are such likes and dislikes so potent aa when the thought of
approaching death sug- 06 gests the last action in respect thereto. ..."
3. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"WHEN the King travelled, the stages of his progress were called gests."—Ibid. p.
283. " THE severity of agues in that age, greater as it seems, ..."
4. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"The King's Poet. Robert of Gloucester. Antient Political Ballads. Robert of Brunne.
The Brut of England. Le Roman de Rou. gests and ..."
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