Definition of "laurel"

Now large tracts of land are given over to the cultivation of the camphor laurel.

March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, pages 265–6

Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.

2014, Cayden Carrico, A Nocturne of Echoes, page 32

It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.

2013, John Hornor Jacobs, The Twelve-Fingered Boy, page 161

In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.

1866, Archibald Fergusson, The crusher' and the Cross, page 149

Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.

1927, John Mackinnon Robertson, Modern humanists reconsidered, page 29

He was laurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.

2010, Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party

In 1973, the modern papist missionary was laurelled an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the institution founded by a Congregationalist missionary to the Indians of the northern wilds.

2017, George William Rutler, Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive