English

Proper noun

Guendolen

1. A female given name, a variant of Gwendolen.
   • 1892 Robert Grant: The Reflections of a Married Man. Scribner,1892. page 101:

     "I am quite aware," she added, "that we shall be in a certain sense gambling with a conscipious, individualizing name, for she may grow up commonplace-looking or a fright; but we must take some chances in life, mustn't we, Fred?"

     "Either Rosamond, Eleanor, or Guendolen is appropriate for a beauty," said I, with non-committal subserviency,