garland
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Unlike the soft, pliable versions of the Christ child in his early Madonnas, this is a monumental, muscular putto, using his strength to hold that garland aloft.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
“If you had a tree or some garland with 1,000 lights, it might have 800. Things will just get watered down, and so you will be paying the same, if not more, for less.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
Or why spend $30 on a holiday garland when you could make something similar out of shopping-bag cardboard?
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2025
Once there I’d walk approximations of streets that could be part of a small town or double for Brooklyn, all decked out in evergreen garland, sparkling lights, giant candy canes and other holiday ornaments.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023
The old nuns laugh and their eyes dance when they bend down to receive a garland of daisies or cowslips from his hand.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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