gul

American  

[gool] / gul /

noun

1. a large octagonal design derived from the shape of a rose, a motif on Oriental rugs.

2. a flower, especially a rose.

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Etymology

Origin of gul

First recorded in 1810–20; from Persian gul “rose”

Example Sentences

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gul

You’re safe with me, my flower, my gul.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

“Sneaked off while he had the chance—wal, I’ll be gul darned!”

From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Burton Donnel Hughes

"The dancers, were painted some party per pale, gul and sab, some party per fesse of the same colours;" whence Gibbon concluded "that heraldry was ingrafted naturally into the sense of the humane race".

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang

There is a widespread belief that gul bēl growing on a margosa tree is more efficacious as a medicine than that which is found on other kinds of trees.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Or, what is he, so senseless and secure, That, having hardly past a dangerous gul, Will put him self in peril there again?

From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)