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Gulistan

[garden of roses ]. The famous recueil of moral sentences by Saadi, the poet of Shiraz, who died 1291. (Persian, ghul, a rose, and tan, a region.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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