garlanded

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Adjective

garlanded (comparative more garlanded, superlative most garlanded)

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    • 1956 December, Michael Robbins, “End of the Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 810:
      [] Arnton Fell comes into sight across the Riccarton Burn and—more important—so does the Carlisle train, with an impatient-looking Pacific, Sir Visto, and several heads out of windows inquiring what the delay is and marvelling at the spectacle of an eight-coach train, garlanded at the front and quite full of passengers, coming off the single line.
    • 2024 February 24, Raphael Abraham, “I'm suspicious of people making Holocaust films”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      [] a hat-trick that he [Jonathan Glazer] describes as “genuinely bewildering”. It's the kind of thing that garlanded luvvies say all the time, but it's easier to believe in this case.

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garlanded

  1. simple past and past participle of garland