beau geste

May. 17th, 2011 07:11 am
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beau geste (boh ZHEST) - n., a gracious or magnanimous gesture, esp. one that is futile or only for effect.


The courtesies of a highwayman. Borrowed around 1900 from French, literally "beautiful gesture."

---L.
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