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Gustave

American  
[guhs-tahv, gys-tav] / ˈgʌs tɑv, güsˈtav /

noun

  1. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “staff of God.”


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Greens member of parliament Steevy Gustave said he felt like a "robot" repeating the same thing every day.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

In a well-reported case last year, a group of feminist artist-activists vandalised a 19th-Century painting of a woman's vulva by French artist Gustave Courbet, calling it misogynistic.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

The Guggenheim Bilbao puts Frank Gehry, who died on Friday at age 96 , in the ranks of Gustave Eiffel and Antoni Gaudi, designers who will forever be known by one building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

“Salome Dancing before Herod,” the 1876 Gustave Moreau painting, is a deliciously ornate work that inspired the new candle by Rick Owens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

The young aristocrat and his friend Gustave de Beaumont had been dispatched by their government in 1831 with the specific mission of examining America’s rumored-to-be-innovative prisons.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover