different between garland vs circlet

English

Etymology

From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierl?n, *wieral?n, a frequentative form of Frankish *wier?n (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????l?nd/

Noun

garland (plural garlands)

1. A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

   • Bestow a Garland only on a Bier

2. An accolade or mark of honour.
3. (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
4. The crown of a monarch.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large

     [she] joyfully receyued and welcommed mee, as the onely type and garland of her noble stirpe and linage

5. (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
   • 1765, Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

     They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

6. The top; the thing most prized.
7. (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
8. (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Translations

See also

• chaplet

Verb

garland (third-person singular simple present garlands, present participle garlanding, simple past and past participle garlanded)

1. (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland
2. (transitive) To form something into a garland

Anagrams

• Ragland

English

Etymology

From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??(?)kl?t/

Noun

circlet (plural circlets)

1. A small circle.
2. A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
3. A crown without arches or a covering.
4. A round body; an orb.
5. (Britain, dialect) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Translations

Further reading

• circlet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia