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laurels en · NOUN
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(form-of, plural) plural of laurel
Two mountain laurels were in bloom.
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(plural, plural-only) Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with bays, sacred to Apollo.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
Relateds
mountain laurel · rest on one's laurels · laureate
laurels en · VERB
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(form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of laurel