great laurel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of great laurel
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Example Sentences
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I have been through much—I have suffered much, but I have won two great laurel wreaths beyond thirty.
From The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The sunny fruit garden—ancient, Dutch, and square—with its barricade of a high hedge, a stone wall, and between it and the house a shining fence of great laurel trees.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Where Joan stood, the peace of the time was broken only by a gentle dripping from the leaves of a great laurel by the gate which led from the farmyard to the fields.
From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts
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 Eden Phillpotts
In her hands she carries a great laurel wreath.
From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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