beau geste
Americanplural
beaux gestesnoun
Etymology
Origin of beau geste
literally: beautiful gesture
Example Sentences
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Still, in city politics, even the beau geste can be fraught.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides that final beau geste she left behind a haunting epitaph, claiming she was a great actress because "she had acted on the last day of her life."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was one of the few times in history that the Solicitor General refused to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and it was a beau geste that cost Griswold his job.
From Time Magazine Archive
The beau geste, the beautiful act, which ennobles all men, not merely the doer of the deed,—that is what France is giving the world.
From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert
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