| 单词 | olive wreath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasolive wreath olive wreath n. ΚΠ 1601 Songbks.: Madrigals (front matter) Then with an Oliue Wreath for peace renowned, Her virgin head they crowned. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 417 Sunk are her Eyes, and toothless are her Jaws: Her hoary Hair with holy Fillets bound, Her Temples with an Olive Wreath are crown'd. 1754 G. Jeffreys Triumph of Truth i. 385 And ever be our Monarch's praise With Olive-wreaths to twine the Bays. 1788 Pennsylvania Gaz. July 9 Col. John Shee, on horseback, carrying a flag, blue field, with a laurel and an olive wreath over the words—‘Washington, the Friend of his Country’. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 656 Place the olive-wreaths near. 1914–16 G. S. Viereck Songs of Armageddon 13 Tear from thy brow the olive wreath! 1993 Hesperia 62 278/1 Athenian bronze coin... Reverse: Two owls standing, facing, in olive wreath. 2000 A. A. Carter Red Rose Girls 115 Edward..added his own congratulations, noting that although the recompense was small, as the Greeks said of the olive wreath, it ‘should have been of pure gold had not Jupiter himself been poor’. < as lemmas |
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