‖ beau geste
(bo ʒɛst)
[Fr., = fine gesture.]
A display of magnanimity.
| 1920 John O'London's Weekly 21 Feb. 562/1 The beau geste is less a physical than a mental and literary revelation. 1922 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec., I think Germany can pay,..and Italy is too poor to make the beau geste of abandoning her claims. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xv. §3 He gave in... He was not going to quarrel with a beau geste. |