Meanings
alternative laureled
- Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
The laurelled head of Macrious, with the usual peculiarities, and the lorica strapped over his shoulders.
1834, William Henry Smyth, Descriptive catalogue of a cabinet of Roman imperial large-brass medals - Highly honored
Her most laurelled novels, which make up The Wonderland Quartet, include the National Book Award–winning Them, and charts the decline of working-class America in the 1960s.
2012, John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist, →ISBN, page 2091 more example
A heavily laurelled Irish bard – no, not the one you're thinking of: another one, with less talent – was reading a purportedly humorous poem to the usual sporadic titters, and I heard a recognizable Scots voice in the crowd near me growl, 'I don't think that's funny. Why does anyone think that's funny. I don't think that's funny.'
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
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