What is "garlanded"

Usage examples of "garlanded".

Today, with the streets newly washed by the spring rains and every archway garlanded with flowers, I could well believe it, as the masters of the Empire attempted to forge yet another alliance by the marriage of Maximian's young daughter Fausta to my son Constantine.

And so I was seeing Mediolanum from the vantage of a triumphal cart, garlanded and gilded and shaded with pink silk which clashed with the purple palla I wore, though I trusted that it flattered my complexion.

Every window was hung with white, and each archway garlanded with spring flowers.

They were robed in priestess blue, garlanded as if for a festival, and they held out their arms in welcome.

The young couple sat on a dais, garlanded and cold, while the guests filed past dropping rupees into their laps.

While above the blackboard the garlanded portraits of President Yahya and Mutasim the Martyr stare sternly down.

The garlanded features of the President gazed down upon sixty‑one men and nineteen dogs.

Particularly he dwelt on the couple found slain in the bed of a pickup truck in Impruneta, the bodies carefully arranged by the Monster, strewn and garlanded with flowers, the woman's left breast exposed.

The garlanded nymph on the right, her left breast exposed, flowers streaming from her mouth as the pale Zephyrus reached for her from the forest.

The image of the couple dead in the bed of the pickup, garlanded with flowers, flowers in the girl's mouth.

Images flashed by like wind-borne leaves: the strange number on its shield, and the helmeted woman in many forms and guisesold, young, in rags, crowned, hanging naked from a gibbet, riding garlanded through broad, unfamiliar streets.

This bore one of the more martial symbols of Sakor: a gloved hand holding up a flaming sword garlanded with laurel and rue.