gauguin
- n French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)
gaul
- n a person of French descent
- n a Celt of ancient Gaul
- n an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
gaultheria
- n widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
gaultheria hispidula
- n slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds
gaultheria procumbens
- n creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
gaultheria shallon
- n small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries
gavotte
- n an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- n music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
gauntlet
- n to offer or accept a challenge
threw down the gauntlet
took up the gauntlet - n a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- n a glove with long sleeve
- n a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
gauntness
- n extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)