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olive crown

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noun

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

"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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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 grayish olive, crown blackish; outer web of outer tail-feather whitish; below white tinged with yellow, sides of breast grayish; bill black.

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

The olive crown encircled his tossed and dusty hair.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

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

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

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