单词 | gester |
释义 | † gestern. Obsolete. A professional reciter or singer of romances. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story of exploits > teller of gesterc1380 jesterc1380 c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 128 Þei sitten in castels & townes wiþ mynstralcie & lauȝ tur, wiþ tregetours & tomblers, wiþ gestours & japeres. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 108 All manner of minstrales, And jestours, that tellen tales. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 101 Poetes and gestoures [L. carminatores] uppon a pulpet rehersede poysees, gestes and songes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 191/2 Gestowre, gesticulator. c1460 Launfal 430 Launfal..Fyfty fedde povere gestes..Fyfty clodede gestours. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. iv. 36/1 His dedes ben tolde of heraudes and gestours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1380 |
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