Brewer's: Geste

or Gest (g soft). A story, romance, achievement. From the Latin gesta (exploits).

“The scene of these gestes being laid in ordinary life.” —Cyclopædia Britan. (Romance).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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