Definition of "garland"

Bestow a Garland only on a Bier

1717, Alexander Pope, The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […]

[she] joyfully receyued and welcommed mee, as the onely type and garland of her noble stirpe and linage

1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye; republished in Grafton’s Chronicle; or, History of England. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [George Woodfall] for J[oseph] Johnson; […], 1809,

They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

1765, Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

And call him noble that was now your hate,Him vile that was your garland.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]

Anand disembarks like a statesman from the Volkswagen to be garlanded immediately by five different women.

2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 206