Wreaths
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A wreath is an assortment of flowers, leaves, fruits, twigs, or various materials that is constructed to resemble a ring, typically used as an ornament or for decoration.
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[edit]- There was Molly Sullivan's wreath-twigs interspersed with small bits of typewritten paper — which was said to symbolize the "challenge of expressing natural phenomena through the written word." Of all the artists to have grappled with this age-old dilemma, Sullivan was perhaps the first to do so with a wreath.
- And of all the artists to have grappled with this age-old dilemma, Sullivan was perhaps the first to do so with a wreath of peace, and also goodwill for all, symbolising what Christmas truly means.
- "Wreaths: the key of Christmas" by John Goss for The Seven Days
- Weave garlands, maiden, from the strands
Of dill, and with soft gentle hands
Set the delicious leafage round your head.
The Goddess and the happy Graces
Love to look on flower-crown’d faces,
But turn aside from the ungarlanded.- Sappho, frag. qtd. by Athenaeus, xv, 674d. Tr. C. M. Bowra, OBGVT (1938), p. 207
