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Walt Disney himself, laurelled by the White House as the “Creator of an American Folklore,” claimed the mantle of innocence, describing Mickey as “Youth, the Great Unlicked and Uncontaminated.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

The most laurelled of black composers, Ellington was honored on his 70th birthday with a dinner and jam session at the White House.

From Time • Oct. 24, 2011

Sometime it pleaseth to beguile Its monarch fancy with a smile; Sometime it is athirst for tears: And so adown the laurelled years I walk, the noblest lord on earth, Dispensing sympathy and mirth.

From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene

Thus did Charles Sumner lay down a platform for a Political Abolition Party, and of such a party he became the laurelled champion and leader.

From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington

Not for him the promise, It shall be thine in danger's hour To guide the helm of Britain's power And midst thy country's laurelled crown To twine a garland all thy own.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.