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- noun Plural form of
laurestine .
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Examples
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Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed — among the huge laurestines, about the tufts of pampas grasses, amid the variegated hollies, under the weeping wych-elm — nobody was there.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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The lovers arose, brushed against the laurestines, and pursued their way to the house.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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All day their route had been among the hills, along roads hedged in with laurestines, covered with sunny blossoms and myrtle thickets always in rich leafiness.
The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens
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The lovers arose, brushed against the laurestines, and pursued their way to the house.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed -- among the huge laurestines, about the tufts of pampas grasses, amid the variegated hollies, under the weeping wych-elm -- nobody was there.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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