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 Gu’listan [garden of roses].Gulliver (Lemuel). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Gull (rhymes with dull).
 
A dupe, one easily cheated. (See BEJAN.)   1
       
“The most notorious geck and gull
That e’er invention played on.”
       
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, v. 1.
 


 Gu’listan [garden of roses].Gulliver (Lemuel). 

 
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