olive crown
Britishnoun
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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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