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 girlanda. Menage traces its origin from gyrus through gyrulus, to gyruire, gyrlandum, girlandum; and at length girlanda and guirlande; so that guirlande and garland are descended in the sixth 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 hand.