1. gest - Noun
2. Gest - Proper noun
A guest.
Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
Gesture; bearing; deportment.
A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
Source: Webster's dictionary(after Phil Jupittus had insulted Michael Jackson, and David Gest had said 'be nice!') Aw, be nice to the baby-dangling freak. Bill Bailey
Abbey of Saint Mary at York The backdrop of Saint Mary's Abbey at York plays a central role in the Gest as the poor knight who Robin aids owes money to the abbot. Source: Internet
A Gest of Robyn Hode states that the outlaw built a chapel in Barnsdale that he dedicated to Mary Magdalene, :I made a chapel in Bernysdale, :That seemly is to se, :It is of Mary Magdaleyne, :And thereto wolde I be. Source: Internet
And, while Wentbridge is not directly named in A Gest of Robyn Hode, the poem does appear to make a cryptic reference to the locality by depicting a poor knight explaining to Robin Hood that he 'went at a bridge' where there was wrestling'. Source: Internet
Child Ballads 117A:210, ie A Gest of Robyn Hode stanza 210 As it happens the next traveller is not poor, but it seems in context that Robin Hood is stating a general policy. Source: Internet
Largely a paraphrase of the Gest, it also contains material revealing that the author was familiar with early versions of a number of the Robin Hood broadside ballads. Source: Internet