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- adjective Decorated with
garlands .
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Examples
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Grown stupid with dismay, he turned and fixed his eyes on a Japanese jar standing on a begarlanded console table of the time of Louis
Two Poets 2007
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Grown stupid with dismay, he turned and fixed his eyes on a Japanese jar standing on a begarlanded console table of the time of Louis
Two Poets 2007
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Gutrune, rose-wreathed, is borne shoulder-high upon a gilded and begarlanded throne.
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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No less than sixteen persons being implicated in the capital charge of abduction which followed, you may imagine how lively the Procession of the Fierte was that year, and the cheers of the populace as Jean de Boissey (begarlanded with roses, as all the prisoners were) moved along, no doubt with Marie on his arm, and the sturdy monk walked behind him from the Place de la Basse Vieille Tour to the Cathedral.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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Trotter was still only nineteen years of age when she produced her tragedy of _Fatal Friendship_, the published copy of which (1698) is all begarlanded with evidences of her high moral purpose in the shape of a succession of "applausive copies" of verses.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888
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And observe that the majority of those deputies had used the identical electoral methods, that there were on those benches heroes of the famous "rastels," of those open-air banquets at which begarlanded and beribboned calves were borne aloft in triumph as at Gargantua's kermesses.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Kuni availed herself of this, and did not need to ask many questions to learn everything that she desired to know about the little begarlanded elf.
In the Blue Pike — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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Kuni availed herself of this, and did not need to ask many questions to learn everything that she desired to know about the little begarlanded elf.
In the Blue Pike — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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The honeymoon was planned to last six weeks; but a bare four had elapsed when the postman delivered a letter announcing the pair’s return; and a couple of evenings later Annemarie stood waiting at the front door, which was green-begarlanded, and topped by a large “Welcome!”
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a Japanese jar standing on a begarlanded console table of the time of
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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