great laurel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of great laurel
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Example Sentences
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Forming in fours they marched up the street under great laurel trees, of such a size as Daimur had never seen anywhere before.
From The Enchanted Island by Apjohn, Fannie Louise
Born of the sunshine, on a morning in late December, gray ephemerae danced and dipped and fashioned vanishing patterns against the green of the great laurel at the corner of Drift farmyard.
From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden
Among the Alleghany Mountains, from Virginia southward, the great laurel rises to a height of forty feet, and interlaces its boughs with those of Fraser's magnolia and the mountain hemlock in the dense forest cover.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
The "great laurel" of the northern United States is Rhododendron maximum.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
It flashed upon her like a sudden light, though they were standing in the shade of a great laurel.
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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