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Giffard is an Anglo-Norman surname, carried by a number of families of the Peerage of the United Kingdom and the landed gentry. They included the Earls
The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, it was the first powered and steerable airship to fly
Ingaret Giffard, Lady Van der Post (1902 – 5 May 1997), was a British actress and writer, and the second wife of Sir Laurens Van der Post (CBE). Born
John Giffard may refer to: John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard (1232–1299), English nobleman John Giffard (died 1556) (c. 1465–1556), Tudor courtier, soldier
Henri Jacques Giffard (8 February 1825 – 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship
Osbern (or Osborne) Giffard (c. 1020 – c. 1085) was one of the knights who invaded England in 1066 under William the Conqueror. He was rewarded with holdings
Miles William Giffard (18 December 1925 – 24 February 1953) was an English cricketer and convicted murderer. He played cricket five times for the Cornwall
General Sir George James Giffard, GCB, DSO (27 September 1886 – 17 November 1964) was a British military officer, who had a distinguished career in command
Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), (pron. "Jiffard") of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England, was a Royalist leader during the Civil
Godfrey Giffard (c. 1235 – 1302) was Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Worcester. Giffard was a son of Hugh
GIFFARD
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English
Variant spelling of English Giffard, GIFARD means "chubby-cheeked."
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English
From the Middle English byname giffard, GIFFARD means "chubby-cheeked."Â
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British, Christian, English, German
Brave Giver; Puffy-faced
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Giffords Hall in Suffolk. It was originally named in Old English as Gyddingford ‘ford associated with Gydda’. Compare Giddens.English : possibly in some cases a variant spelling of Giffard, which may derive from an Old German personal name, Gifard, or from a Middle English nickname from Old French giffard ‘chubby-cheeked’, ‘bloated’ (a pejorative of giffel ‘jaw’, ‘cheek’, of Germanic origin).
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Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : from Middle Dutch stoop, Middle Low German stÅp ‘pitcher’, ‘stone bottle’, hence a nickname for a heavy drinker, or a metonymic occupational name for a wine seller or innkeeper.English : of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle English stulpe, stolpe ‘post’ or ‘boundary marker’ (Old Norse stolpi), or from Middle English stoppe ‘bucket’ (Old English stoppa), hence a topographic name for someone who lived either by a boundary post or in a deep hollow. Alternatively, it could be a habitational name from a place so named, most probably Stop in Fonthill Giffard in Wiltshire, named with Old English stoppa ‘bucket’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so named. One in Lancashire is named from the Old English female personal name Æ{dh}elsige (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + sige ‘victory’) + Old English tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; one in Nottinghamshire originally had as its first element the genitive case of the Old Norse byname EilÃfr meaning ‘everlasting’; one in Wiltshire was so named from Elias Giffard, holder of the manor in the 12th century.
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Indian
Phrase from the holy Quran
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Bengali, Indian
Name of Draupadi; Important Character of Mahabharata
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Hindu
Thoughtfull
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British, English
From the Bend Shaped Like a Nose
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Arabic American Muslim
Handsome.
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Tamil
Hitansh is the wish for our happiness and favorable
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Arabic
Servant of the Opener of the Gates of Sustenance
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Dutch
, addition, or, he will add.
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Hindu, Indian
Goldsmith
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Bengali, Indian, Kannada
One who Never Born
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A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.