laurels

laurels

1. plural of laurel

   Two mountain laurels were in bloom.

laurels pl (plural only)

1. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     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.

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

laurels

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of laurel

• allures