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Gesta Romanorum definition

Gesta Ro·ma·no·rum (jes′tə rō′mə nôr′əm)

a 14th-cent. European collection of tales in Latin, used as a source of plots by Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc.

Etymology: ML, doings of the Romans

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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