gestour
Middle English
Alternative forms
- iestour, jestour, gestiour, gestowre, geestour, gestoure
Etymology
Equivalent to gesten + -our; compare geste (“a deed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɛsˈtuːr/, /ɡɛːsˈtuːr/
Noun
gestour (plural gestours or gestoures)
- A reciter of gests or legendary tales.
- Chaucer
- minstrels and gestours for to tell tales
- Chaucer
- A jester; a comic.
Descendants
- English: jester
- Scots: jestar
References
- “ǧē̆stǒur (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gestour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)