garlandwise en · ADV
Etymology
From garland + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In an arrangement resembling a garland.
[…] and the young man's eyes absently followed the windings of the oak leaves which ran beneath the mantel-shelf garlandwise, framing in the centre a tablet bearing this legend, […]
1880, Bertha Behrens, Lizzie of the Mill, page 36: