lawny
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɔːni/
- Rhymes: -ɔːni
Adjective edit
lawny (not comparable)
- 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, “[Amatory Odes.] Amatory Odes. Ode CXLI. 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; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume I, London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC, page 98:
- 'Tis like a lawny firmament, as yet / Quite dispossess'd of either fray or fret.
- Having or resembling a grass lawn.
- 1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April:
- Musing through the lawny park.