An evergreen shrub of speciesLaurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of alanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in theiraxils.
1961,Harry E. Wedeck,Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page136:
Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.
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(transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurelwreath.
2014, Cayden Carrico,A Nocturne of Echoes,→ISBN, page32:
Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large porticolaureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.
2013, John Hornor Jacobs,The Twelve-Fingered Boy,→ISBN, page161:
It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree linelaureling a trailer park.
1866, Archibald Fergusson,The crusher' and the Cross, page149:
In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He waslaurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.
1927, John Mackinnon Robertson,Modern humanists reconsidered, page29:
Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers wholaurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go onlaurelling him still.
He waslaurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.
2017, George William Rutler,Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive,→ISBN:
In 1973, the modern papist missionary waslaurelled an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the institution founded by a Congregationalist missionary to the Indians of the northern wilds.
