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Attested since circa 1300 (gesto). From Latin gestus.

xesto m (plural xestos)

gesture
facial expression
(archaic) posture, attitude (of the body)
- 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 159:
  Et quando [ella] caualgaua traballaua quanto podia por fazer gesto de varõ em seu caualgar
  And when she was riding, she tried as much as she could to keep a manly attitude

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Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “xesto”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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