Both Uses of
gesticulate
in
A Sketch of the Past
- Theyare "presided over" by some of the six lovely sisters; who do not wear crinolines, but are robed in splendid Venetian draperies; they sit enthroned, and talk with foreign emphatic gestures —my mother too gesticulated, throwing her hands out—to the eminent men (afterwards to be made fun of by Lytton); rulers of India, statesmen, poets, painters.†
- Indoors he would walk up and down the room, gesticulating, crying that he had never told mother how he loved her.†
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Definition:
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(gesticulate) to make gestures (hand or body movements) while speaking or to express something