Catalan
laurèola (Antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
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.
1
General French can afford to shed one leaf from his laurel wreath.
2
You have all sung the laurel wreath without knowing what it is.
3
The greater the danger, the larger the laurel wreath you win inter philosophos.
4
I may invite the neighbours in, and crown myself with a laurel wreath.
5
Mr Maskey will lay a laurel wreath two hours before the main event.
1
The prizes are the same dreary, old, fading bay wreaths.