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Wreaths of honor
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laurels
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
laurels \lau"rels\, n. pl. An honor or honors conferred for some notable achievement. to rest on one's laurels [fig.] to be content with one's past achievements and not strive to continue to excel; as, he didn't rest on his laurels after ...
Usage examples of laurels.
Sertorius wreathed in laurels and with Rome in Italy beneath its foot!
On one side of the house stood the stable, on the other an alley or cloister of laurels led to the larger garden behind.
The young lady, having scattered bread for the birds (for the fourth or fifth time that day, because the dog ate it), passed unobutrusively down the lane of laurels and into a glimmering plantation of evergreens behind.
The green gaiety of the waving laurels, the rich purple indigo of the night, the moon like a monstrous crystal, make an almost irresponsible romantic picture.
As Brunelleschi stamped around in his winner’s garland of laurels (what else?
I went shakily over to the laurels on the opposite side of the clearing from where Giuseppe-Peter had appeared, and edged slowly, cautiously, between two of the glossy green bushes.
There were a good many laurels here among a whole bunch of younger trees and we could get no distant view, but approximately fifty paces from the clearing we caught a glimpse of a light.