Garland vs Wreathe - What's the difference?
garland | wreathe |
A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
An accolade or mark of honour.
(mining) A metal gutter placed round a mine shaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
The crown of a monarch.
(dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
* Percy
The top; the thing most prized.
(nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
(nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath
To form a wreathlike shape around something
To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath
(obsolete) To turn violently aside or around; to wrench.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
*:from so heauie sight his head did wreath , / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate [...].
As a proper noun garland
is for a maker or seller of garlands.As a verb wreathe is
to twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath.garland
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia garland)- (Alexander Pope)
- (Grafton)
- They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands .
- (Shakespeare)
