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Gustave

American  
[guhs-tahv, gys-tav] / ˈgʌs tɑv, güsˈtav /

noun

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


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Greens member of parliament Steevy Gustave said he felt like a "robot" repeating the same thing every day.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

In a well-reported case last year, a group of feminist artist-activists vandalised a 19th-Century painting of a woman's vulva by French artist Gustave Courbet, calling it misogynistic.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The Guggenheim Bilbao puts Frank Gehry, who died on Friday at age 96 , in the ranks of Gustave Eiffel and Antoni Gaudi, designers who will forever be known by one building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

"Of course she does, Gustave; she is my daughter," Du Barry says with pride.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton