Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of olive-branch
comparative more olive-branched · superlative most olive-branched
- Adorned with one or more olive branches.
Orange trees and apricot trees huddled amid the gray-silver leaves of gnarled olive-branched trees.
2013, Lynny Harris, Midbar III, page 2452 more examples
Indeed, in the 1960's, Blacks and other minorities extended, by and large, the olive-branched claw of the Eagle, our national symbol.
1971, The Catholic Charities Review - Volumes 55-56, page 8Members of San Francisco's considerable French colony were at tables flanked by the French tricolor and the Stars and Stripes, with the olive-branched symbol of the UN in the center.
1978, Laddie Marshack, A crowd of lovers, page 114
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