lawny

English

Etymology

From lawn +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lawny (not comparable)

  1. Made of lawn or fine linen.
    • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
      When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, / And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the Fever, Not to Trouble Julia”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 91:
      'Tis like a Lawnie-Firmament as yet / Quite diſpoſſeſt of either fray, or fret.
  2. Having or resembling a grass lawn.
    • 1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April:
      Musing through the lawny park.

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