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
Yea, yea, but where Is Truth, save by whose breath Art is a laurelled death?
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Olive Tilford Dargan
Such thunderbolts, in other lands, Have smitten the rod from royal hands, But spared, with us, till now, Each laurelled Cæsar's brow!
From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Robert Haven Schauffler
His steady-going career had been laurelled with place and honours, and in Echo he had found compensation for the empty and the missed.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
