Writha

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Release Date: 2020-05-01

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wreath
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▶noun
1. An arrangement of flowers, leaves, or stems fastened in a ring and used for decoration of for laying on on a grave: e.g. the Queen laid a wreath at the Centotaph | a laurel wreath.
• a carved representation of a wreath.
• a ring made of or resembling soft twisted materials: e.g. a gold wreath.
• in Heraldry, a representation of a ring of twisted material below a crest
(especially where it joins a helmet).
2. A curl or ring of smoke or cloud: e.g. wreaths of mists swirled up into the cold air.
3. Archaic, chiefly Scottish a snowdrift.

— origin Old English writha, related to writhe.