garlandwise

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

garland +‎ -wise

Adverb[edit]

garlandwise (not comparable)

  1. 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, […]
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