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Definitioner
Substantiv
- Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
- 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.
- (heraldry) 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.
Verb
- To place an entwined circle of flowers upon or around something.
- To wrap around something in a circle.
Exempel
- a wreath of smoke; a wreath of clouds
- 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.
- 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.
- At the funeral, a circle of comrades wreath the grave of the honored deceased.
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