Wreath

//ɹiːθ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.

    "a wreath of smoke    a wreath of clouds"

  2. 2
    flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes wordnet
  3. 3
    An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.

    "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."

  4. 4
    A defect in glass.
  5. 5
    An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. 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
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of wreathe. alt-of, alternative

    "Sale) or Salovv a kind of vvoodde like VVyllovv, fit to vvreath and bynde in leapes to catch fiſh vvithall."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wreth, wrethe (“coiled or rounded shape; decorative garland, wreath; chaplet, crown; ring”, noun), from Old English wrǣd, wrǣþ, wriþa (“bandage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). Doublet of wreathe and writhe.

Etymology 2

See wreathe.

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