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noun

Garland n.

The crown of a king. (Obs.)

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.

The top; the thing most prized.

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. "They (ballads) began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands."

(Naut.)

(a)

A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

(b)

A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

verb

Garland v. t. (past & past part. garlanded; pres. part. garlanding) To deck with a garland.

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Etymology of 'Garland'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Garland" Quotes from Famous Books

... from night till startled Morn[84] Peeps blushing on the Revel's laughing crew, The Song is heard, the rosy Garland worn; Devices quaint, and Frolics ever new, Tread on each other's kibes.[85] A long adieu He bids to sober joy that here sojourns: Nought interrupts the riot, though in lieu[cy] Of true devotion monkish incense ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... Montfaucon and his squire, rode together the next morning to the scene of the feast. They arrived on a village green, surrounded with cottages peeping from among the trees by which the green was completely encircled. The whole circle was hung round with one continuous garland of flowers, depending in irregular festoons from the branches. In the centre of the green was a May-pole hidden in boughs and garlands; and a multitude of round-faced bumpkins and cherry-checked lasses were dancing around it, to ...

— Maid Marian • Thomas Love Peacock

... a woman might prove a compensation. But the pious exhortations hanging on the walls seemed to cause him a certain uneasiness. Above the washstand there were two cards bearing the inscriptions, 'Thou art my hope,' 'Thou art my will'; and these declarations of faith were written within a painted garland of lilies ...

— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore

... 'mark' and the 'prize.' He aims at the one for the sake of the other. The one is the object of effort; the other is the sure result of successful effort. If I may so say, the crown hangs on the winning post; and he who touches the goal clutches the garland. ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... on talking; twining stiff fibres of awkward speech—things young men blurted out—plaiting them round his own smooth garland, making the bright side show, the vivid greens, the sharp thorns, manliness. He loved it. Indeed to Sopwith a man could say anything, until perhaps he'd grown old, or gone under, gone deep, when the silver disks ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

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