gesture

gesture
gesture (n.) early 15c., "manner of carrying the body," from M.L. gestura "bearing, behavior," from L. gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see GEST (Cf. gest)). Restricted sense of "a movement of the body or a part of it" is from 1550s; figurative sense of "action undertaken in good will to express feeling" is from 1916. As a verb, recorded 1540s, from the noun. Related: Gestured; gesturing.

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