Meaning of Laurels | Babel Free

Definitions

Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Two mountain laurels were in bloom.”

“Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”

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