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Laurel

noun

Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.

United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965). Synonyms: Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel, Stan Laurel.

(antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory. Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel wreath.

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... was against him. After eight years of desperate fighting, the valiant soldier was captured, executed on Tower Hill in London as a traitor, and his head, crowned in mockery with a wreath of laurel, was set on a ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... "At Laurel Hill, Richmond county, North Carolina, it was reported that a runaway slave was in the neighborhood. A number of young men took their guns, and went in pursuit. Some of them took their station near the stage road, and kept on the look-out. It was early in the ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... the bold, Or laurel for our valiant Chief, Save some blockaded British thief, Full fraught with murder ...

— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)

... much to chain a young man's fancy, when the road of life runs enticingly before him, dappled with laurel and carpeted with primrose. ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... testifies to the political influence of woman. Who favored the bold genius of Columbus? Do you say Ferdinand of Spain? I answer, it was Isabella, prompting her partner to the patronage he so reluctantly bestowed. Her influence unexerted, the Genoese mariner had never worn the laurel that now graces his brow. Will you leave this all-potent being illiterate, to rear sons debased by ignorance, and to become dupes ...

— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

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