Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.
Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.
coin design of a head crowned with a laurel wreath.
The name given to a bust of a usually male person (usually The King) with a laurel of leaves places on his head in a Roman style. The last British coinage example was George IV (1820-30) on his early coinage. Shown on George III in Illustration 2, top of page.
someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag"- James Traub
a person honored for high achievement in a particular field
Being shown with a wreath of laurels on the head or in the hair.
wearing a wreath of laurel leaves.
Head crowned with laurel wreath. An example is found on an 1813 penny token.
crowned with a wreath of laurel, victorious.
A head wearing laurel wreath; often refers to a victory of a triumphant monarch.