Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
laurustinus .
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- noun
laurestine
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Examples
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Gardens were no longer filled with yews in the shape of giants, Noah's ark cut in holly, St. George and the Dragon in box, cypress lovers, laurustine bears, and all that race of root-born monsters which flourished so long, and looked so tremendous round the edges of every grass-plat.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Greville, are happy in these parks and forests: we were happy in my close winter-walk of box and laurustine.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
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