beau geste

1. 1.

   a gracious (but usually meaningless) gesture

   Broadergesture

Questions about beau geste

What does beau geste mean?

beau geste means "a gracious (but usually meaningless) gesture".

Is beau geste a common word?

beau geste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.