laurel
/ˈlɔɹ.əl/ verb C2- To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
- To enwreathe.
- To award top honours to.
He/she/it laurels · Past laureled · Past participle laureled · -ing form laureling
Verb forms
- Base form
- laurel
- He/she/it
- laurels
- Past
- laureled
- Past participle
- laureled
- -ing form
- laureling
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If the green-grocer had such a thing as a laurel wreath, I should send Billy round for it.”
Tent of the laurel.
There was a laurel bush outside the window, and several of the branches bore signs of having been twisted or snapped.
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
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