interwreathe

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ wreathe

Verb

interwreathe (third-person singular simple present interwreathes, present participle interwreathing, simple past and past participle interwreathed)

1. To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
   • a. 1657 Richard Lovelace, to my dear friend Mr. E.R

     Say, happy youth, crown'd with a heav'nly ray
     Of the first flame , and interwreathed bay

   • 1843, Edgar Allen Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon:

     Gentle undulations of soil, interwreathed with fantastic crystallic streams, banked by flowery slopes, and backed by a forest vegetation [...]

References

• “interwreathe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.