(Antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
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Examples for "laurel"
Examples for "laurel"
1It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.
2He did not even reach the laurel-trees however, before the guards arrived.
3Earlier in the season laurel and honeysuckle shed their fragrance into it.
4Caesar was a laurel-crowned blackguard in his relations with the divine Cleopatra.
5Here they feed upon the leaves of the laurel and other evergreens.
1General French can afford to shed one leaf from his laurel wreath.
2You have all sung the laurel wreath without knowing what it is.
3The greater the danger, the larger the laurel wreath you win inter philosophos.
4I may invite the neighbours in, and crown myself with a laurel wreath.
5Mr Maskey will lay a laurel wreath two hours before the main event.
1The prizes are the same dreary, old, fading bay wreaths.
Translations for bay wreath