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Bridal-wreath   /brˈaɪdəl-riθ/   Listen
Bridal-wreath

noun
1.
Chilean evergreen shrub having delicate spikes of small white flowers.  Synonyms: bridal wreath, Francoa ramosa.
2.
Shrub having copious small white flowers in spring.  Synonyms: bridal wreath, Saint Peter's wreath, Spiraea prunifolia, St. Peter's wreath.





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"Bridal-wreath" Quotes from Famous Books



... went slowly up and down the box-bordered walks, the full skirt of her "old lady's gown" trailing stiffly over the white gravel, her delicate face rising against the blossomless shrubs of snowball and bridal-wreath, like a faintly tinted flower that had been blighted before it fully bloomed. Around her the garden was fragrant as a rose-jar with the lid left off, and the very paths beneath were red and white with fallen petals. Hardy cabbage roses, ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... pale her cheeks, that in pride did glow, Sister Helen, 'Neath the bridal-wreath three days ago." "One morn for pride and three days for woe, Little brother!" (O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days, three ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine


Words linked to "Bridal-wreath" :   Francoa, bush, bridal wreath, St. Peter's wreath, spiraea, genus Francoa, spirea, shrub


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