Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Gu’listan [garden of roses].

 Gulf Stream.Gull (rhymes with dull). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Gu’listan [garden of roses].
 
The famous recueil of moral sentences by Saadi, the poet of Shiraz, who died 1291. (Persian, ghul, a rose, and tan, a region.)   1
 


 Gulf Stream.Gull (rhymes with dull). 

 
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