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Answer for the clue "Garland for the head, formerly ", 6 letters:
anadem

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Anadem \An"a*dem\, n. [L. anadema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to wreathe; ? up + ? to bind.] A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. --Drayton. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] ||

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A headband, especially a garland of flowers.

Usage examples of anadem.

It was only through an unlikely series of investment reverses, and the malice of her great aunt Amelia, Anadem allowed, that she had come to manage the Hotel Gijon.

First thing he had to plan was how to get his things out of the hotel without Anadem seeing him.

When he hit the lobby he found Anadem sprawled on the chaise in her office.

Ada, on the grass, kept trying to make an anadem of marguerites for the dog while Lucette looked on, munching a crumpet.

And leaves danced about their feet as they walked, wreathing their legs in gay anadems so that they seemed to trail fire and loveliness at every step.

For scores of leagues south and west of the riders, profuse aliantha and deep grass were full of goldleaved Gilden and other trees, cherry and apple and white linden, prodigious oaks and elms and maples anademed in autumn glory.

Covenant could feel their relaxed ascent as they rode through woodlands anademed in autumn, ablaze with orange, yellow, gold, red leaf-flames, and over lush grassy hillsides, where the scars of Stricken Stone’s ancient wars had been effaced by thick heather and timothy like healthy new flesh over the wounds, green with healing.

Covenant could feel their relaxed ascent as they rode through woodlands anademed in autumn, ablaze with orange, yellow, gold, red leaf-flames, and over lush grassy hillsides, where the scars of Stricken Stone’.