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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See laurel.

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Examples

  • In the gardens, the rose-laurel which is beginning to bloom in profusion is becoming already magnificently pink.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • A small garden two yards wide, surrounded by a low wall so that one could see the passers-by, separated the house from the road; there was a beautiful rose-laurel, extending its southern foliage above the evening bench, and there were yuccas, a palm tree, and enormous bunches of those hortensias which are giants here, in this land of shade, in this lukewarm climate, so often enveloped by clouds.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • She stayed later and later in this place which she liked, under the shelter of the rose-laurel coming into bloom, and sometimes even, she came out noiselessly through the window, like a little, sly fox, to breathe there at length, after her mother had gone to bed.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • On the stage, partly cleared of the débris of fifteen hundred years, trees had been left where they had grown, among fallen columns, fragments of capital and statue; near the front a superb rose-laurel recalled the

    The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884

  • No one can make much music with the mandoline, but there is no other music, perhaps, which sounds so fittingly to time and place, as do its simple sonorous tender chords when heard through the thickets of rose-laurel or the festoons of the vines, vibrating on the stillness of the night under the Tuscan moon.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • A hundred steps in front of the temple a little clump of rose-laurel shook in the twilight haze on the edge of a rivulet all but dried up.

    Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Myrtle and rose-laurel branches were strewn upon the ground, and from the walls of the palaces were suspended by little rings of bronze rich tapestries, whereon the needles of industrious captives -- intermingling wool, silver, and gold -- had represented various scenes in the history of the gods and heroes:

    King Candaules Th��ophile Gautier 1841

  • The water that causes it comes out a little way above it, but originates from the crevice, which I will cover at top with rose-laurel and mountain-ash, with clematis and vine; and I will intercept the little rill in its wandering, draw it from its concealment, and place it like

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

  • a clean white door-step on the sunny side, somewhat shaded by a tall rose-laurel tree in a great tub, and she sang as she sat spinning, and

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

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