garlandwise

English

Etymology

From garland +‎ -wise.

Adverb

garlandwise (not comparable)

1. In an arrangement resembling a garland.
   • 1880, Bertha Behrens, Lizzie of the Mill, page 36:

     […] 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, […]