An island in the English Channel, to the north-west of Jersey; population 65,900 (est. 2009); capital, St Peter Port. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands.

1An animal of a breed of dairy cattle from Guernsey, noted for producing rich, creamy milk.

2A thick sweater made with oiled navy-blue wool and originally worn by fishermen.

1. 2.1Australian A football jumper, especially one of the sleeveless kind worn by Australian Rules players.
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   • Collingwood, the Lions and the AFL have agreed to the curtain-raiser between Fitzroy Reds, which wear Fitzroy guernseys, and West Brunswick, which wears black and white stripes.
   • It's a big part of their program obviously, you're not going to turn down an Australian guernsey.
   • He was also a huge man - the yellow sash of his guernsey was required to stretch much further than any other at Longford.
   • Placing mementoes such as football guernseys or photographs on coffins and playing popular music during funeral services are likely to be discouraged under Catholic Church guidelines.
   • There is film footage of it available, and one team, the third division, wore blue guernseys with a white map of Australia, and the training units wore a red guernsey with a white kangaroo.
   • Oddly enough, on the day that I saw Blighty, it was playing Katunga, which wears white guernseys with a red ‘V’ and calls itself (drum roll, please) the Swans.
   • The players were presented with their guernseys at a function on Monday at Subiaco Oval at which Andrew Swallow was named WA captain.
   • To pass the time, several players played a form of Keno in which numbers were selected according to past and present players' guernseys.
   • Given the enormous rainfall at the top of the Dandenong Ranges, where the club is based, mothers have approved of the Lycra guernseys that have replaced woollen jumpers in recent years.
   • Swift Creek cast aside its Melbourne guernseys to play in a version of the jumpers that traditional rival Ensay wore in the 1960 grand final.
   • Osborne, which has always worn black and yellow guernseys, was known as the Tigers until entering the Hume league in 1970.
   • Perth-born Krakouer is well-known to football fans, playing for the West Australian Football League before pulling on North Melbourne and St Kilda guernseys in the AFL.
   • So all the early football clubs don't have green in their guernseys.
   • In a memory that must make current Collingwood powerbrokers shudder, the Magpies changed their guernseys for their match against Swan Districts in April 1982.
   • This year, my Fitzroy football guernsey turned 10-years-old, and I am proud.
   • Jack Long and his sons were presented with the traditional guernseys that have made way for dark green jumpers with gold monograms.
   • Those winning their Australian guernsey from the titles will be heading off to Canada for the World In-Line Cup, to be held in London, Ontario, from June 25 to July 22.
   • He'd also like to see AFL players visiting schools wearing the guernseys of their WAFL clubs.
   • Others include a football guernsey from the Collingwood AFL side, signed by all of this year's players, and a gold pendant necklace, donated by Hourglass Jewellers.
   • And if we can get the young out there channelling their violence in an attractive, profitable way, within a team, wearing guernseys, then I think we'll have a much, much safer and more peaceful world.