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Laurel wreath

noun

An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event. Synonyms: decoration, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon.

(antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory. Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel.

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... which he himself had been inspired, when he produced his most applauded odes. So saying, he led him up the sacred hill, persuaded him to drink a copious draught of the waters of the Hippocrene, and then presented him to the harmonious Nine, who crowned his temples with a laurel wreath. ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... respectability; it reminded Leonard Upjohn of Christ among the Pharisees, and the analogy gave him opportunity for an exquisite passage. And then he told how a friend—his good taste did not suffer him more than to hint subtly who the friend was with such gracious fancies—had laid a laurel wreath on the dead poet's heart; and the beautiful dead hands had seemed to rest with a voluptuous passion upon Apollo's leaves, fragrant with the fragrance of art, and more green than jade brought by swart mariners from ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

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