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big laurel

noun

South Midland U.S.
  1. the rhododendron.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of big laurel1

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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I looked where Dad was pointing and saw it, the big laurel oak.

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He said he “loved Ed Wood,” and that he is a “big Laurel and Hardy” fan. 

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Bob beat a precipitate retreat, and pitched me headlong into a big laurel hedge, near the gate.

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It was open, and inside, under the shelter of a big laurel, stood a woman with a basket.

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Quietly she stole past the sassafras brake to the big laurel.

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