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Lawn
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- 1 A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- 2 An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 3 A town in Texas, United States.
- 4 An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
- 1 Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. countable, uncountable
"Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach."
- 2 A type of thin linen or cotton. uncountable
"Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn."
- 3 a field of cultivated and mowed grass wordnet
- 4 An open space between woods. England, countable, historical, regional, uncountable
- 5 Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop. countable, in-plural, uncountable
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- 6 An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists. countable, uncountable
- 7 A piece of clothing made from lawn. countable, obsolete
"[…] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]"
- 1 To furnish with a lawn. transitive
"By opening all the arches of the several apartments […], by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]"
Etymology
Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.
Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.
Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.
(Canada): From French L'Âne (“The Donkey/Ass”). (United States): From lawn.
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