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Definition of Laureates
1. laureate [v] - See also: laureate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laureates
Literary usage of Laureates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"LAURELS AND laureates. A YOUNG lady of Thessaly, celebrated for her beauty ...
But if we proceed from Apollo, our chapter on laureates will be longer tlnn ..."
2. Table Traits: With Something on Them by Doran (John) (1854)
"It is incontrovertible that, with the exception of two or three, all our laureates
have loved a more pleasant distillation than that from bay-leaves. ..."
3. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"CHAPTER IV laureates OP LOVE PORTO-RICHE AMONG the chief laureates of love in
the contemporary French theatre, Porto-Riche is the eldest and the least ..."
4. The Poets Laureate of England: Being a History of the Office of Poet by Walter Hamilton (1879)
"... THE VOLUNTEER laureates. " Ev'n now, confess'd to my adoring eyes, In awful
ranks thy gifted sons arise. Tuning to knightly tale his British reeds, ..."
5. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"Respecting the origin of poet laureates, see De la Sade, Mémoires pour la Vie de
François Pétrarque, tome ii. (Amsterdam, 1764, 4to), notes at end of volume ..."
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