Gustave

[ guhs-tahv; French gys-tav ]

noun

1. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “staff of God.”

Example Sentences

Do you ever feel that you, like Gustave, are living in the wrong era?

From The Daily Beast

This was the world of Gustave H. our narrator assumes, one of refinement, poise, and impeccable service.

From The Daily Beast

Set at a hotel in the 1920s, it stars Ralph Fiennes as Gustave H., famed concierge of The Grand Budapest Hotel.

From The Daily Beast

First he was visited by Gustave Gilbert, a New Yorker born to Jewish-Austrian immigrants.

From The Daily Beast

Monsieur,” said Gustave Adolphe to the old negro, “le prisonnier refuse de faire réponse, et demande à manger et à boire.

From Project Gutenberg

Gustave was full of apologies for his carelessness, as he called it; I was dignified.

From Project Gutenberg

Raemaekers in his cartoon follows the conception of Gustave Doré rather than that of the old fabulists.

From Project Gutenberg

Gustave Piotrowski has experimented on the length of time blood retains CO.

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The eldest, Achilles, was nine years older than Gustave, and the two other little ones were dead.

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