Crossword clues for gillian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gillian \Gil"li*an\, n. [OE. Gillian, a woman's name, for
Julian, Juliana. Cf. Gill a girl.]
A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from French Juliane, from Latin Juliana (a saint's name), fem. of Julianus, literally "of Julius."
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A girl, especially a wanton; a gill.
Wikipedia
Gillian (variant Jillian) is an English feminine given name, frequently shortened to Gill. It originates as a feminine form of the name Julian. It is also in use as a surname.
Notable people with the name include:
Usage examples of "gillian".
Shriveled and brittle, more brown than red-it took a moment for Addle to recognize it as the little bouquet she had once confiscated from Gillian Duncan, tucked into her apron and forgotten.
Colonel John Bonaire, this is Mademoiselle Maggie Gillian from the United States.
Don was a bit of a Luddite, and still had a pocket datacom, but Lenore and Gillian had web-accessing brainlink implants.
Or did Gillian, who had known Hitchcock since grade school and had befriended him since junior high, really believe her childhood friend was innocent?
Reluctantly, with rolling, oystery eyes, the old rascal accompanied Gillian into the hall.
Intrigued, Gillian Hazeltine, the Silver Fox, agrees to represent Pawling and defend him in court.
His angry eyes swept down the line-up of prisoners, clashed with the steady blue eyes of Roger Pawling, dealt an optical blow to old Dan Murphy, and came to rest, fairly sizzling upon the bronzed, half-smiling countenance of Gillian.
He still clung, after all this time, to the belief that Roger Pawling was the murderer, and nothing Gillian had said had shaken him.
Sword, bicycle, mandolin fragments, Guillaume, Finch, Smetana, Ralph, the audience, Kuukkinen, Claude the Plonk, Dreznik, Fred, Gillian.
But what a step, Peter thought, and probably the same thought occurred to Gillian: she turned quickly and walked on, the hard sun flash through trees taming her blindly, melting down her eyes.
She told me your ambivalence towards Gillian, a girl child, would affect the fetus, and in all probability lead to stillbirth.
She had just emerged from its white-tiled, silver-tapped luxury a few minutes before Lady Arabella, together with Gillian and Michael Quarrington, presented themselves at her dressing-room door, and they found her ensconced in an easy-chair by the fire, sipping a cup of steaming hot tea.
Gillian and Magda, laden with parcels, entered the room as she spoke, and, before Quarrington could prevent her, she had flashed round on her god-daughter.
Meanwhile, Lord Roos had taken advantage of the brief halt of the hunting party to approach the Countess of Exeter, and pointing out Gillian to her, inquired in a low tone, and in a few words, to which, however, his looks imparted significance, whether she would take the pretty damsel into her service as tire-woman or handmaiden.
Satisfied with what he had heard, Lord Roos moved away, nodding approval at Gillian.