The noun gesture refers to an action or a movement you do in order to express a feeling, belief, emotion or information.
In
Ubon Ratchatani, more than 100 people dressed in white in a gesture of
sacrifice.
Later,
as relations warmed, Portuguese people also served in the army and as a
gesture
of appreciation King Chairachathirat gave away land on which they built
a church and around which grew the Portuguese settlement.
The
10 million people who marked 'no' in April 2's snap election were less
than the 16 million voters who endorsed caretaker Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai party, but their symbolic gesture turned out
to be hugely significant.
Every
once in a while, she would beat her mother’s chest in
excitement and smile, a gesture
she usually repeated after she had milk to her heart's content.
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