Meaning

noun any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family

noun United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)

noun (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory

originInherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Doublet of loureiro.

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