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Guʹlistan [garden of roses]

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The famous recueil of moral sentences by Saadi, the poet of Shiraz, who died 1291. (Persian, ghul, a rose, and tan, a region.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Guinever
Guinevere
Guingelot
Guisando
Guise’s Motto:
Guitar
Gules [red]
Gules of August (The)
Gulf
Gulf Stream
Gulistan [garden of roses]
Gull (rhymes with dull)
Gulliver (Lemuel)
Gulnare
Gummed
Gumption
Gun
Gun
Gun Cotton
Gun Money
Gun Room