lawn

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see also: Lawn

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /lɔːn/
• (America) IPA: /lɔn/
• (cot-caught) IPA: /lɑn/

Noun

lawn

1. An open space between woods.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
3. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Translations

• French: clairière
• German: Lichtung
• Portuguese: clareira
• Russian: опу́шка
• Spanish: claro

Translations

• French: gazon, pelouse
• German: Rasen; (when large also) Wiese
• Italian: prato
• Portuguese: gramado
• Russian: газо́н
• Spanish: césped, grama (Dominican Republic), pasto (Argentina), zacate (Costa Rica)

Noun

lawn

1. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

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

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 144:

     He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.

2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
   • 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:

     […] 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 […]

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Lawn

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Proper noun

1. A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
2. An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
3. A town in Texas, USA.
4. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, USA.

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