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enwreath

British  
/ ɪnˈriːð /

verb

  1. (tr) to surround or encircle with or as with a wreath or wreaths

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Behold, of Iehua bloom of Kaana The women are stringing enough To enwreath goddess Kapo; 20Kapo, great queen of that island, Of the high and the low.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

Thy midnight cup is pledged to slaves,   No genial ties enwreath it; The smiling there, like light on graves,   Has rank cold hearts beneath it.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Silence and solitude reign around it, and wild fig-trees enwreath with their luxuriant foliage the opening made by Time, and half conceal the wounds inflicted by barbarian hands.

From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

Perfect beauty shall one day enwreath this earth with its clustering vines.

From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

Her rich black ringlets floating loose, Her noble face enwreath.

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

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