GARLAND, a sort of chaplet made of flowers, feathers, and sometimes precious stones, and worn on the head in the manner of a crown. The word is formed from the French guirlande, and that of the barbarous Latin garlanda, or Italian ghirlanda. Ménage traces its origin from gyrus through gyrulus, to gyrulare, gyrlandum, ghirlandum, and at length ghirlanda and guirlande; but Hick rejects this derivation, and brings the word from gardel handa, which in the northern languages signify a nosegay artfully wrought with the hand.