Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A garland carried before the bier of a maiden and hung over her grave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.
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Examples
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V. i.255 (319,2) Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants] I have been informed by an anonymous correspondent, that _crants_ is the German word for _garlands_, and I suppose it was retained by us from the Saxons.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with ‘virgin crants and maiden strewments.’
Dracula 2003
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Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with "virgin crants and maiden strewments."
Dracula 1897
bard commented on the word crants
A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.Obs.
Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments.--Shakespeare
June 17, 2008
qms commented on the word crants
The mourners in silence advance
Behind the wee bier and the crants.
Their minds are so laden
With grief for the maiden
They move as though caught in a trance.
January 3, 2016