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  2. Bras d'honneur - Wikipedia

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    Physical demonstration of the bras d'honneur gesture. Bras d'honneur (bras d'honneur; literally "arm of honor") is an obscene gesture used to express contempt.It is roughly equivalent in meaning to phrases like "fuck you" or "up yours", similar to the the finger gesture.

  3. Hand-in-waistcoat - Wikipedia

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    The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (1812), exhibiting the hand-in-waistcoat gesture. The hand-in-waistcoat (also referred to as hand-inside-vest, hand-in-jacket, hand-held-in, or hidden hand) is a gesture commonly found in portraiture during the 18th and 19th centuries. The pose appeared by the 1750s to indicate leadership in a ...

  4. Hand-kissing - Wikipedia

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    Kissing the hand, or particularly a ring on the hand was also a gesture of formal submission or pledge of allegiance of man to man, or as a diplomatic gesture. The gesture would indicate submission by kissing the signet ring (a form of seal worn as a jewelry ring), the person's symbol of authority. The gesture was common in the European upper ...

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    French women and their enigmatic fashion rules have long been a source of fascination for anyone interested in fashion. At any age, they always appear to have an air of sophistication without seemi.

  6. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    The gesture is often used as a "funny face" when taking pictures. Fish lips: sucking the lips in a manner that makes the mouth look like one of a fish. Shush, the index finger of one hand is extended and placed vertically in front of the lips, with the remaining fingers curled toward the palm with the thumb forming a fist ; used to demand or ...

  7. Quenelle (gesture) - Wikipedia

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    Quenelle gesture. The quenelle (French pronunciation:) is a gesture created and popularized by French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala.He first used it in 2005 in his sketch entitled "1905" about French secularism, and has used it since in a wide variety of contexts. [1]

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  9. Kissing traditions - Wikipedia

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    French culture expects kisses on the cheek in greeting, though the customs differ. Two kisses are most common throughout all of France but, in Provence, three kisses are given and in Nantes, four are exchanged. [4] Kissing quickly on the lips with the mouth closed is a common greeting in some places of Western culture such as South Africa.