A garland is a decorative braid, knot or wreath of flowers, leaves, or other material. Garlands can be worn on the head or around the neck, hung on an inanimate object, or laid in a place of cultural or religious importance.
Tinsel garlands on a Christmas tree
A daisy chain
Roman fresco of a woman with red hair wearing a garland (or chaplet) of olives, from Herculaneum, made sometime before the city's destruction in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius (which also destroyed Pompeii).
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A wreath is an assortment of flowers, leaves, fruits, twigs, or various materials that is constructed to form a ring shape.
A Christmas wreath on a house door in England.
A golden wreath and ring from the burial of an Odrysian Aristocrat at the Golyamata Mogila in the Yambol region of Bulgaria. Mid 4th century BC.
A replica bust of Apollo wearing a laurel wreath.
A sculpted wreath on the South African War Memorial, Richmond Cemetery