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garlandage

garlandage noun: garlands, or decorations that resemble garlands.

Noun

garlandage (uncountable)

  1. (literary) Garlands, or decorations that resemble garlands.
    • the glorious greenery of country langes, the songs of the birds, the joyous summer garlandage of hedgerow and cottage garden, and the sweet pure air of the distant fields, all glowing with the golden sheen of buttercups1870, Thomas Archer, chapter 6, in A Fool’s Paradise, page 137
    • The Lost one Found was greeted as in Heaven / With joy that blazed itself in woodland wealth / Of leaf, and gayest garlandage of flowers, / Along the walls and down the board;1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Balin and Balan”, in Tiresias, and Other Poems, page 122

Origin of garlandage

From garland + -age.

Questions about garlandage

What does garlandage mean?
Garlandage means garlands, or decorations that resemble garlands.
What part of speech is garlandage?
Garlandage is a noun.

Words near garlandage in the dictionary

  1. Garland County
  2. Garland Day
  3. garland thorn
  4. Garland Valley
  5. garland war
  6. garlandage
  7. garlanded
  8. garlander
  9. garlanders
  10. garlanding
  11. garlandings

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