garlandage en · NOUN
Etymology
From garland + -age.
Meanings
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(literary, uncountable) Garlands, or decorations that resemble garlands.
Ornaments of ash and lava, dust-mouth warblers and mud-caked butterflies, garlandage, accompanied the flight.
1996, Dionne Brand, In Another Place, Not Here, page 105:The Lost one Found was greeted as in Heaven / With joy that blazed itself in woodland wealth / Of leaf, and gayest garlandage of flowers, / Along the walls and down the board;
1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Balin and Balan”, in Tiresias, and Other Poems, page 122:From a patch of green turf that lay before the church of Wittan uprose a maypoe, its head already crowned with a Spring diadem by the youths and maids of the town, but its other garlandage as yet unfinished and lying upheaped at its foot,
1917, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “The Jest”, in Under the Hermés, and Other Stories, page 138:the glorious greenery of country langes, the songs of the birds, the joyous summer garlandage of hedgerow and cottage garden, and the sweet pure air of the distant fields, all glowing with the golden sheen of buttercups
1870, Thomas Archer, chapter 6, in A Fool’s Paradise, page 137: