myrtle garland
chiefly poetic
noun
A wreath of myrtle, especially as worn in honour of Venus, or by a bride; hence used allusively to refer to love or marriage.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Heywood (c1573–1641), playwright and poet.
- teacherly
- teachers college
- tea chest
- teach-in
- teaching
- teaching fellow
- teaching hospital
- teaching machine
- teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
- teach school
- teach someone a lesson
- Teachta Dála
- tea cloth
- death knell
- deathless
- deathlessness
- death light
- deathlike
- deathliness
- deathling
- deathly
- death march
- death mask
- death match
- death metal