laurels
noun C2- Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with bays, sacred to Apollo.
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Presumably he at once concealed his cycle among the laurels where it was found, and possibly lurked there himself, with his eye on the house, waiting for Mr.
Holmes crouched down behind the screen of laurels, and we all three followed his example.
The laurels among which we lay were immediately opposite the window and not more than a hundred feet from it.
He lies in the laurels, he runs on the grass,
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