Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Twisted; curled; spiral.
- Surrounded or decked with a wreath or with something resembling a wreath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.
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- adjective Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She nodded and gave him her fingers and the most fetching and wreathy of smiles, and he, eager to the point of folly, added: “Oh, so do I.”
An American Tragedy 2004
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And howl about the hills, and shake the wreathy spear
The AEneid Virgil 2002
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And howl about the hills, and shake the wreathy spear.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Namely using hickory smoke not delivered from furnace pipes but welling up, up, in beautiful wreathy spirals, to reach row on row of hams and flitches -- and to be told, by a kind person who did not know she already knew, that their curing was patterned on the old English model -- curing in the smoke of great-throated stone hall chimneys.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
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Art and literature, and wisdom and wit, adorning with a wreathy and garlandy splendour all that is noblest in mind and purest in heart!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number Various
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And howl about the hills, and shake the wreathy spear
The Fourth Book of the Aeneis Vergil 1909
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There sped the Susquehanna, lightly draped in a mantle of mist, which was gradually disappearing in wreathy, rose-tinted columns, as the sun shone out from above the hills.
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Beneath him seethed and boiled the tumultuous billows, their wreathy tops torn from them, and shot, in long vanishing sheets of spray, over the distracted wilderness.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864
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But, happily, as we and the day advanced, more wreathy lines of smoke indicated the approach of others of the fleet; and oh, good fortune! by 11 a.m. we had weathered the cape and were hove to off Hatteras Bar, waiting for the little black tug-boat that was steaming out to pilot us in.
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821
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