engarland

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verb

To encircle with a garland or garlands, or as if with garlands.

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Meanings

verbengarland (third-person singular simple present engarlands, present participle engarlanding, simple past and past participle engarlanded)

present singular third person engarlands · participle present engarlanding · participle past engarlanded · past engarlanded

  1. To encircle with a garland or garlands, or as if with garlands.

    Muſes, I oft inuoked your holy ayde, / With choiſeſt flowers my ſpeech to engarland ſo; / That it deſpiſde in true but naked ſhew, / Might winne ſome grace in your ſweet grace arraid.

    The New Arcadia

    c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 55, page 537

Origin

From en- + garland: compare French enguirlander.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

rangeland
Cite this entry
APA

engarland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engarland

MLA

“engarland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engarland. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “engarland,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/engarland.

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