interwreathe
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]interwreathe (third-person singular simple present interwreathes, present participle interwreathing, simple past and past participle interwreathed)
- 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
- Say, happy youth, crown'd with a heav'nly ray
- 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 [...]
- a. 1657 Richard Lovelace, to my dear friend Mr. E.R
References
[edit]- “interwreathe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.