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Meanings of laurel in anglès
(Laurus nobilis) A shrub of the family Lauraceae.
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laurèola (Antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
Synonyms
Examples for "bay"
Examples for "bay"
1
In the morning of the 10th, the Discovery arrived in the bay.
2
Keeping Angela Merkel at bay might be a good place to start.
3
Police held the crowd at the bay and there was no violence.
4
We gazed west to the sea and shoreline towns across the bay.
5
She had a great deal of experience keeping such panic at bay.
1
A huge California bay laurel tree grew thirty feet from the back of the house, its massive arms stretching leafy branches in a hundred directions.
2
Bay laurel trees, each standing taller than a man, filled the air with fragrance.
1
A lattice shed had been built beyond the washhouse past the bay tree.
2
Mr. Brown found a more lowly seat beneath a bay tree.
3
It is furnished by the bay tree, which grows here.
4
They looked like a bunch of monkeys climbing around in the big bay tree.
5
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green- bay tree.
1
Poison oak, sweet bay trees, calcanthus, brush, and chaparral, grew freely but sparsely all about it.
2
Huge aloes grow in the shade, and the sweet bay and bushes of rosemary make the air fresh and fragrant.
3
It's made from the leaves of the sweet bay tree, which grows on all these islands and all over this country.
4
Even if I'd believed her story, I couldn't hate the magnificent laurel groves that encircled the villa and lent it a sweet bay perfume.
1
The name is extended to other plants which in some respect resemble the true laurel.
2
For the true laurel-wreath which glory weaves
United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
See moreUsage of laurel in anglès
1
It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.
2
He did not even reach the laurel-trees however, before the guards arrived.
3
Earlier in the season laurel and honeysuckle shed their fragrance into it.
4
Caesar was a laurel-crowned blackguard in his relations with the divine Cleopatra.
5
Here they feed upon the leaves of the laurel and other evergreens.
6
I picked a leaf of the Portugal laurel, which I send you.
7
They'll all be sporting with the young ladies in the laurel walks.
8
The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel branches.
9
The setting sun was shooting arrows of gold under the glossy laurel-leaves.
10
Girolamo Casio received the laurel crown from the hand of Clement VII.
11
And it seems certain that our Dante deserved the wreath of laurel.
12
When it has killed the Chameleon it takes laurel as a purge.
13
Then she presented him with the casket which contained the golden laurel.
14
In her hair or on her breast there always rested a laurel-leaf.
15
General French can afford to shed one leaf from his laurel wreath.
16
There was no discernable way up, nothing but mountain laurel and rock.
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Translations for laurel
portuguès
espanyol
Laurel through the time
Laurel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common