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Garland   /gˈɑrlənd/   Listen
Garland

noun
1.
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969).  Synonym: Judy Garland.
2.
A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas).
3.
An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc..  Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany.
4.
Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.  Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath.
verb
(past & past part. garlanded; pres. part. garlanding)
1.
Adorn with bands of flowers or leaves.



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"Garland" Quotes from Famous Books



... golden glove; or, the squire of tamworth. King James I. And the tinkler. The Keach i' the Creel. The Merry Broomfield; or, the west country wager. Sir John Barleycorn. Blow the winds, i-ho! The beautiful lady of Kent; or, the seaman of Dover. The Berkshire lady's garland. The nobleman's generous kindness. The drunkard's legacy. The Bowes tragedy. The crafty lover; or, the lawyer outwitted. The death of Queen Jane. The wandering young gentlewoman; or, Catskin. The brave Earl Brand and the King of England's Daughter. The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove; ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... cannot say. . . . The black lamb wears its burdocks As if they were a garland,—have you noticed? Purple and white—and drinks the bitten grass As if it were ...
— Aria da Capo • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... for me," she said, "the vow So lightly breathed, to break erelong; The vintage-garland on the brow; The revels of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... around the old flagpole and the classic busts blackened by the weather. Then, tired of flying, they settled down on the rusty iron balconies, adding to the old building a white fluttering decoration, a rustling garland of feathers. In the middle of the square a marble swan, with its neck violently stretched toward the sky, threw out a jet, whose murmur seemed to heighten the impression of icy cold which he ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... inspired so large a literature. Joaquin Miller found it fearful, full of glory, full of God. Charles Dudley Warner pronounced it by far the most sublime of earthly spectacles. William Winter saw it a pageant of ghastly desolation. Hamlin Garland found its lines chaotic and disturbing but its combinations of color and shadow beautiful. Upon John Muir it bestowed a new sense ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard


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