garlandwise
English
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editgarlandwise (not comparable)
- In an arrangement resembling a garland.
- 1880, Bertha Behrens, Lizzie of the Mill, page 36:
- […] and the young man's eyes absently followed the windings of the oak leaves which ran beneath the mantel-shelf garlandwise, framing in the centre a tablet bearing this legend, […]