wreathe

koristaa seppeleellä

sitoa seppele

kiemurrella puhekieltä To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath.
c. 1594, (w), (w), Act IV, Scene 3,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=loveslabours&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

You do not love Maria; Longaville

Did never sonnet for her sake compile,

Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart

His loving bosom to keep down his heart.

But how should I avoid to be her slave,

Whose subtle art invisibly can wreathe

My fetters of the very air I breathe?

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

A flowery band to bind us to the earth,

Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth

Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,

Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways

Made for our searching: (..)

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown

Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

The flowers crackled at Anne’s touch. “Enough to wreathe the winter’s dead,” she said with a happy little sigh and, taking a pink bud from the pile, twined it in the lace of her black cap.

I unsealed the vial mystical,

I outpoured the liquid thing,

And while the smoke came wreathing out,

I stood unshuddering.

from so heauie sight his head did wreath, / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate ....