olive crown

British  

noun

1. (esp in ancient Greece and Rome) a garland of olive leaves awarded as a token of victory

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olive crown

Plus a poem, a song, and perhaps an olive crown.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

But only one can win the olive crown.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2013

Above dark olive, crown blacker; below dusky grayish, throat whitish, belly yellowish; lower mandible yellowish.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman

Yes, the hand that now weaves the roses should have woven thee the olive crown!'

From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Now Greek meets Greek again, but wrestling now Is not as on old Ilion's shore, I trow; Not now the olive crown, the long-wool'd sheep, Is prize; 'tis Power they strive to win and keep.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 by Various

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