laurel
noun
a small European evergreen tree, Laurus nobilis, of the laurel family, having dark, glossy green leaves.
unlaurelled
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a word derived from
laurel.
Example Sentences
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He that coasted Wales and Dover, he that first saw Sussex plains, Passed away with head unlaurelled in the wild Thessalian rains.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
There valiantly struggling in obscure battle and skirmish, under rogue Rossignol, let them, unlaurelled, save the Republic and "be cut down gradually to the last man."
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
There valiantly struggling, in obscure battle and skirmish, under rogue Rossignol, let them, unlaurelled, save the Republic, and 'be cut down gradually to the last man.'
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
III Toward thine Eastern window when the morn Steals through the silver mesh of silent stars, I come unlaurelled from the strenuous wars Where men have fought and wept and died Forlorn.
From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by William Stanley Braithwaite
