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Garland   /gˈɑrlənd/   Listen
noun
Garland  n.  
1.
The crown of a king. (Obs.)
2.
A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
3.
The top; the thing most prized.
4.
A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. "They (ballads) began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands."
5.
(Naut.)
(a)
A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
(b)
A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.


verb
Garland  v. t.  (past & past part. garlanded; pres. part. garlanding)  To deck with a garland.





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"Garland" Quotes from Famous Books



... sentiment. In Mr. Tennyson alone, as we think, the spirit of the Middle Age is perfectly reflected; its delight, not in the "sublime and picturesque," but in the green leaves and spring flowers for their own sake—the spirit of Chaucer and of the "Robin Hood Garland"—the naturalism which revels as much in the hedgerow and garden as in Alps, and cataracts, and Italian skies, and the other strong stimulants to the faculty of admiration which the palled taste of an unhealthy age, from Keats and Byron down to Browning, has rushed ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley
... but would a garland cull For thee who art so beautiful? O happy pleasure! here to dwell Beside thee in some heathy dell; Adopt your homely ways and dress, A shepherd, thou a shepherdess: But I could frame a wish for thee ...
— Memories • Max Muller
... folly, villainy and generosity; and the morose Carr, of whom history describes but one trait, albeit a most characteristic and suggestive one; and those other fanatics, of all ranks and varieties: Harrison, the thieving fanatic; Barebones the shopkeeping fanatic; Syndercomb, the bravo; Garland the tearful and pious assassin; gallant Colonel Overton, intelligent but a little declamatory; the austere and unbending Ludlow, who left his ashes and his epitaph at Lausanne; and lastly, "Milton and a few other men of mind," as we read in a pamphlet of 1675 (Cromwell ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot
... mine For the moment that a garland takes to twine, For the human hour that sorcery ...
— Many Voices • E. Nesbit
... himself. "I fear this cannot last." And he was right. Anxious to justify his remaining at Mussidan after his task was completed, Andre determined to add to what he had already done a masterpiece of modern art, by carving a garland of fruit and flowers over the old balcony, and every morning he rose with the sun ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau


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