laurels
See also: Laurels
English
Noun
laurels
Noun
- Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre[1]:
- 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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Verb
laurels
- third-person singular simple present indicative of laurel