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A ring of laurel leaves enclosing or framing another device.
Also known as: Wreath insignia, Laurels
A wreath of laurel used to frame a rank or unit device. Its association with victory is genuinely ancient — Roman triumphs — which makes it one of the few insignia motifs with a documented rather than invented origin.
A ring or partial ring of laurel leaves, used to enclose or frame a rank device, unit emblem or decoration.
Its association with victory descends from Roman practice, where a laurel wreath was worn by a general celebrating a triumph — a documented classical origin rather than a later attribution.
Classical antiquity onward
A ring of small pointed leaves in two curving branches meeting at the bottom, open or closed at the top, enclosing a space.