garland

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It took a large number of lehua flowers to suffice for a wreath, and to bind them securely to the fillet that made them a garland was a work demanding not only artistic skill hut time and patience.

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  1. noun A wreath or festoon, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
  2. noun A representation of such a wreath or festoon, used as an architectural ornament or heraldic device.
  3. noun A mark of honor or tribute; an accolade: received garlands of praise.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French garlande, perhaps of Germanic origin; see wei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also gerland, gyrland, guirland, etc.; from Middle English garland, garlond, garlaunde, gerland, gerlond, gyrland, from Old French garlande, gerlaunde = Provencal garlanda, guarlanda = Spanish guirnalda = Portuguese grinalda, guirlanda = Italian ghirlanda (later F. guirlande, later D. G. Danish guirlande = Swedish guirland), Middle Latin garlanda, a garland. Origin unknown, but prob. Teutonic: perhaps from Middle High German *wierelen, a supposed freq. of wieren, adorn, from Old High German wiara, Middle High German viere, an ornament of refined gold, properly of twisted thread or wire, = Anglo-Saxon wīr, English wire: see wire.
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