laurels

See also: Laurels

English

Noun

laurels

1. plural of laurel

   Two mountain laurels were in bloom.

2. 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.

See also

• mountain laurel
• rest on one's laurels
• laureate

Anagrams

• allures