laurelled

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

laurel +‎ -ed

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɒɹəld/, /ˈlɔːɹəld/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒɹəld, -ɔːɹəld

Verb

laurelled

  1. (UK) simple past and past participle of laurel

Adjective

laurelled

  1. Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
    • 1834, William Henry Smyth, Descriptive catalogue of a cabinet of Roman imperial large-brass medals:
      The laurelled head of Macrious, with the usual peculiarities, and the lorica strapped over his shoulders.
  2. Highly honored
    • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs, →ISBN:
      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.'
    • 2012, John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist, →ISBN, page 209:
      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.
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