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Vinony

lawn

noun

  1. area of land planted with grasses and similar plants
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /lɒn/ / /lɔn/ / /lɔːn/ / /lɑn/

name

Etymology: (Canada): From French L'Âne (“The Donkey/Ass”). (United States): From lawn.

  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.

noun

Etymology: Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.

  1. A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)

    “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.”

    “The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.”

  2. Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  3. A piece of clothing made from lawn.

    “[…] 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 […]”

verb

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.

  1. To furnish with a lawn.

    “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; […]”