The Only Use of
gesticulate
in
1984, by Orwell
- In the long, windowless hall, with its double row of cubicles and its endless rustle of papers and hum of voices murmuring into speakwrites, there were quite a dozen people whom Winston did not even know by name, though he daily saw them hurrying to and fro in the corridors or gesticulating in the Two Minutes Hate.†
p. 42.0gesticulating = making gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something
Definition:
to make gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something