guiche

a strap; a kiss-curl

From Middle French guiche, from Old French guiche, guige (“willowy place”), from Frankish *wiþþjā, from Proto-Germanic *wiþjǭ (“cord, rope, strap”). Cognate with Old English wiþþe (“tie, band”), whence English withy (“willow, willow twig”), Swedish vidja (“flexible branch, osier”).