wreath

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹiːθ/    美 /ɹiθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
    — a wreath of smoke    a wreath of clouds
  2. An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
    — So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
  3. A defect in glass.
  4. An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative spelling of wreathe. alt-of,alternative
    — Sale) or Salovv a kind of vvoodde like VVyllovv, fit to vvreath and bynde in leapes to catch fiſh vvithall.

词形变化

wreaths plural wreaths present,singular,third-person wreathing participle,present wreathed participle,past wreathed past

词汇关系

衍生词
Advent wreath bridal wreath Hippocratic wreath laurel wreath oak wreath olive wreath snow wreath wreath product wreathwork Yule wreath

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wreth, wrethe (“coiled or rounded shape; decorative garland, wreath; chaplet, crown; ring”, noun), from Old English wrǣd, wrǣþ, wriþa (“bandage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). Doublet of wreathe and writhe.
词源 2
See wreathe.
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