Wreath vs X - What's the difference?
wreath | x |
Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= An ornamental circular band made e.g. of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland; a chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
*, chapter=12
, title= (label) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
To place an entwined circle of flowers upon or around something.
To wrap around something in a circle.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun wreath
is something twisted, intertwined, or curled.As a verb wreath
is to place an entwined circle of flowers upon or around something.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.wreath
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(wikipedia wreath) (en noun)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths , and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.}}
Verb
(en verb)- At the funeral, a circle of comrades wreath the grave of the honored deceased.