Glenlivet. Whisky distilled in the Vale of Glenlivet in Banffshire.
Globe. An inn sign, the name of which was derived from the arms of the King of Portugal.
Globe Trotter. A tourist, a traveller in foreign lands.
Glorious Fourth of July. Another name for “Independence Day.”
Gloucester. The Gloicastra of the Romans, in honour of Gloi, son of the Emperor Claudius, who was born here.
Gloucester Road. From Oxford Lodge, the one-time residence of the Duchess of Gloucester.
Go ahead. From the nautical phrase “The wind’s ahead”--i.e. blowing from the stern towards the vessel’s head.
Goat and Compasses. A corruption of the Puritan motto “God encompass us.”
Goatee. An Americanism for the typical Yankee chin tuft, in allusion to the beard of a goat.
Gobelin Tapestry. Made under royal patronage in the house originally occupied by Jean Gobelin, a wool dyer in Paris, temp. seventeenth century.