lawn
see also: Lawn
Pronunciation Noun
Lawn
Proper noun
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see also: Lawn
Pronunciation Noun
lawn
- An open space between woods.
- Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
- 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)
lawn
- (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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
- (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- (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 […]
- 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:
Lawn
Proper noun
- A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
- A town in Texas, USA.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia, USA.
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