| 单词 | the french gest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe French gest 2. A story or romance in verse: also simply (in later use), a story, tale. in gest = in verse, in the manner of a metrical romance. the English gest, the French gest: metrical chronicles of England, of France. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] kinc892 strindc900 i-cundeOE bloodOE kindredOE birtha1250 strainc1275 gesta1300 offspring?a1300 lineagea1330 descentc1330 linec1330 progenya1382 generationc1384 engendrurec1390 ancestry?a1400 genealogya1400 kind?a1400 stranda1400 coming?a1425 bedc1430 descencec1443 descension1447 ligneea1450 originc1450 family1474 originala1475 extraction1477 nativityc1485 parentelea1492 stirpc1503 stem?c1550 race1563 parentage1565 brood1590 ancientry1596 descendance1599 breeding1600 descendancy1603 delineation1606 extract1631 ancestory1650 agnation1782 havage1799 engendure1867 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > verse romance yeddingc950 gesta1300 jesta1300 romancec1330 romaunt1530 roman d'aventure1868 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story of exploits gesta1300 jesta1300 saga1857 a1300 K. Horn 522 Murie was þe feste Al of faire gestes. a1300 Havelok 2328 Þer mouthe men se..Romanz reding on þe bok; Þer mouthe men here þe gestes singe. 13.. Octavian 279 (MS. Ff. ii. 38, lf. 84) In yeste as we rede. 13.. Sir Beues 3693 (MS. Ff. lf. 121 b) Now begynnyth a yeste ageyn Of King Quore & Armyn. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 38 After þe Bretons þe Inglis camen, þe lordschip of þis land þai namen..þat calle men now þe Inglis gest. c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus Prol. 15 Lat se wher thou kanst tellen aught in geeste Or telle in prose somwhat at the leeste. a1400 K. Alis. 30 Now pais holdith..And ye schole here a noble jeste, Of Alisaundre, theo riche kyng. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xx. 220 Mynstrelles, that syngen Songes and tellen Gestes. 14.. Sir Beues (MS. N) 4313 + 245 Men tellith bothe in gest & ryme, Thei were leide in maner of shryne. c1440 Partonope 405 Thus tellyth now the french geest. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxviii. f. clxi The Bonys of Kynge Arture & his wyfe Gueynour..were founden by a synger of gestys. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 140 Ay is the ouirword of the geist: Giff thame the pelffe to pairt amang thame. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 95 Duke Cephal weeping told this tale to Phocus and the rest Whose eyes were also moyst with teares to heare the pitious gest. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) iv. xxxij. 69/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests [1577 iestes] written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso. 1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. iii. 372 We know..that there were gests and historic ballads written upon the story of Wallace. 1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 89 The harper probably only accompanied the reciter of the Gest. < as lemmas |
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