a sort of chaplet made of flowers, feathers, and sometimes precious stones, worn on the head in manner of a crown.—The word is formed of the French guirlande, and that of the barbarous Latin garlanda, or Italian ghirlanda. Menage traces its origin from gyrus, through gyralis, to gyralis, gyralis, ghirlanda; and at length ghirlanda and guirlande; so that guirlande and garland are descended in the fifth or seventh degree from gyrus.—Hicks rejects this derivation, and brings the word from gardel banda, which in the northern languages signify a nosegay artfully wrought with the band.