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Wreaths

Wreath \Wreath\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Wreaths. [OE. wrethe, AS. wr[=ae][eth] a twisted band, fr. wr[=i][eth]an to twist. See Writhe.]

  1. Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. ``A wrethe of gold.''
    --Chaucer.

    [He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath.
    --Milton.

  2. A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.

    Conquest doth grant He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant.
    --Chapman.

    Far back in the ages, The plow with wreaths was crowned.
    --Bryant.

  3. (Her.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of 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 arms.

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wreaths

n. (plural of wreath English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: wreath)

Usage examples of "wreaths".

Once outside, he whistled the hounds to him and ran to the small house, marked by various charms, chimes, and wreaths, that belonged to Adica.

Some hopeful soul had hung myrtle wreaths from the tripods where lamps stood, their flames marking the path for anyone who walked abroad so close to dawn.

Those wanderings led him to the prostrate red-light district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matri­archs, were still waiting beside their photographs.

It had to be an army of kids, tearing wreaths off the doors of the houses and throwing them at passersby as a prank.

Gray fog whirled around the Christmas wreaths at Matt’s feet, spinning fast enough to lift them into the air.

Bright green wreaths withered and blackened as if all the life was being sucked out of them.

Kate ignored the fog and the wreaths, concentrating on something inside of herself.

The wreaths were thrown, but not very hard in the beginning, yet when Katie began to talk to it, whatever it is, the Christmas wreaths were thrown much more forcefully and with greater accuracy.

If it’s capable of destroying things and moving objects as it did with the wreaths on the doors, why such a silly, almost petty display?

It used wreaths, a symbol often associated with Christmas, and now gifts.

He appears to have specialized almost exclusively in the design of funeral wreaths, although his unusual patterns of expenditure suggest that he may have been involved in other business activities under other names.

Don Apolinar Moscote escorted her by the arm down the street that was decorated with flowers and wreaths amidst the explosion of rockets and the music of several bands, and she waved with her hand and gave her thanks with a smile to those who wished her good luck from the windows.

Her father, Don Fernando, dressed in black with a stiff collar and a gold watch chain, would give her a silver coin on Mondays for the household expenses, and the funeral wreaths finished the week before would be taken away.

When he asked where they sold funeral wreaths they took him from house to house so that he could choose the best ones.

At his command, the mayor appeared at the services with four funeral wreaths, which he tried to place on the coffins, but the colonel ordered him into the street.