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a name floating between Brazilian streamer and obscure surname, depending entirely on who's looking
means A guige is the strap that supports a knight's shield, allowing it to be slung across the back or shoulder rather than gripped constantly by hand.
from From Old French 'guige,' a medieval term for this shield-strap, which appears in the chivalric romances and arming descriptions of the Middle Ages. The deeper root is uncertain — possibly Frankish or another Germanic source absorbed into Old French, as so much military vocabulary was. It belongs to the same vanished world of arming terms as 'enarmes' (the inner shield-grips) and survives now mostly in the careful prose of arms-and-armor scholars.
- name origin
- diminutive of Guilherme, common in Brazil
- surname use
- appears as a French and Portuguese family name
- phonetic trap
- spelling rarely matches how speakers pronounce it
- online life
- mostly surfaces in gaming and social handles