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单词 wreathing ceremony
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wreathing ceremony
4. The action of adorning a person or thing with a wreath; the action of laying a wreath on a tomb or monument. Also as a modifier, esp. in wreathing ceremony. Cf. wreath-laying n. at wreath n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > garland or wreath > action of wreathing
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > wreath or fillet > investing with
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1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxx. 137 The operations of wreathing and unwreathing must here have been performed by the soldiers symbolically.
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 3 338 The two things that struck him as most important about the myth of Athamas were the wreathing of the hero for sacrifice and his madness.
1969 R. Gilman Confusion of Realms (1970) 193 Solness climbs up the tower for the traditional wreathing ceremony.
1987 Green & Grey (Loyola College, Maryland) 14 Dec. 5/6 The New York Public Library has its annual ‘wreathing of the Lions’.
2014 Free Lance-St (Fredericksburg, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Nov. Wreathing and ceremony: 9 a.m., American Legion Post 290.
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