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beau geste

[boh zhest] / boʊ ˈʒɛst /
NOUN
gracious gesture
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Still, in city politics, even the beau geste can be fraught.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015

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

Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a beau geste when Chief Chiappe gave Cl�menceau Valet Albert employment last week, not as a valet but as a special inspector of police.

From Time Magazine Archive

His renunciation had in it that of the beau geste which she secretly adored.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John