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 *gar-landa*, 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.