Guirl
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Possibly from an alteration of French guirlande (“garland”), which suggests that the name may have originated as an occupational surname for someone who makes and sells garlands.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Guirl
- A surname. Of American usage.
- 1905, Edgar Harvey Defebaugh, Barrel and Box and Packages, volume 10, page 50:
- Mr. Guirl is a native of Indiana, and his partner, Mr. H. A. Daggett, who was born in Maine, joined him at Clay City about six years ago.
- 1969, Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain:
- The rosette for the best succulent went to Mrs. H. Guirl for her Gibbaeum heathii, a splendid plant with some 20 heads.