Giselle
[dʒɪˈzɛl]Meaning
from the Old German element gisal, "hostage, pledge"
Background Story
Giselle comes from the Old German element gisal, meaning "hostage, pledge", and may have begun as a descriptive nickname for a child given as a pledge to a foreign court. The French form developed from Old French, shortened from Germanic compound names beginning with gisil. The name was popular in France during the Middle Ages, and though it became known in the English-speaking world through Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle of 1841, it was not regularly used until the 20th century.
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