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Definition of Engarlanding
1. engarland [v] - See also: engarland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engarlanding
Literary usage of Engarlanding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1875)
"ere received with much state—the ceremonies within being partly those you have
seen in Turkey, and partly the scenting and engarlanding of which I have ..."
2. American Lands and Letters by Donald Grant Mitchell (1904)
"... and that later engarlanding of tales which he wove together about the Old
Sudbury Inn. It was a delightful leap away from things academic, and admitted ..."
3. Constantinople by Edmondo De Amicis (1896)
"... groves of cypress trees descending in long lines from the heights to the sea,
engarlanding suburbs and ports ; and a vigorous vegetation ..."
4. Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-workers, Lace-schools and by Charlotte Kellogg (1920)
"On the scarf ends they united the arms of Holland and Belgium, engarlanding them
with hyacinths and tulips, the Dutch national flowers, and about these in ..."
5. The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for (1806)
"... youths and soft virgins pay, Thy mystic boughs engarlanding With many a trophy;
emblem, sacred tree! Of Peace, and blest Content, and holiest Liberty. ..."
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