wreath

noun

A ring or circlet of flowers, boughs, or leaves worn on the head, placed on a memorial, or hung as a decoration.

noun

A representation of this ring or circlet, as in woodwork.

noun

A curling or circular form.

See wreathe.

noun

A twisted band; something twisted, as a flowering branch, into a circular form; especially, a sort of crown made of natural or artificial flowers sewed to a stem, or of thin metal-work, filigree, or the like; a garland; a chaplet.

noun

In heraldry:

noun

A garland or diadem for the head.

noun

The tail of a wild boar: mentioned in the blazon only when of a different tincture from the rest of the bearing.

noun

Something resembling a twisted band; something narrow, long, and circular, of slightly irregular outline.