lawny

English

Etymology

From lawn +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːni/
• Rhymes: -ɔːni

Adjective

lawny (not comparable)

1. Made of lawn or fine linen.
   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     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.

Anagrams

• Alwyn, wanly