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Laver
Definitions
- 1 A surname from Anglo-Norman.
- 2 A village in Iran, known for its Kerman carpets.
- 1 A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable. countable, uncountable
"To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout; or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings."
- 2 Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
- 3 One who laves: a washer.
- 4 seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds wordnet
- 5 Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially countable, uncountable
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- 6 That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
"Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell […]"
- 7 edible red seaweeds wordnet
- 8 Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:; Porphyra vulgaris countable, uncountable
- 9 (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).
From Middle English laver, lavour, from Old French laveoir, laveor, laveour, lavor, lavur, from Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatorium and lavatory.
From lave + -er.
Occupational surname for a washerman, from Anglo-Norman laver.
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