laurel
noun
a small European evergreen tree, Laurus nobilis, of the laurel family, having dark, glossy green leaves.
laurelled
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past participleof laurel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof laurel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
laurelnouna small European evergreen tree, Laurus nobilis, of the laurel family, having dark, glossy green leaves.
Example Sentences
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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
Let the deeds of the dead be laurelled, the brave of the elder years,
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
Those three years of concealment in the small and crowded city of Suakin, for instance, with the troops marching out to battle, and returning dust-strewn and bleeding and laurelled with victory.
From The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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 Stanley J. Weyman
