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English

Adjective

lawny (not comparable)

• Made of lawn or fine linen.
  • ✤ When a plum’d fanne may shade thy chalked face,/And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.¹
  • ✤ ‘Tis like a Lawnie -Firmament as yet/Quite diſpoſſeſt of either fray, or fret.²
• Having or resembling a grass lawn.
  • ✤ Musing through the lawny park.³

Etymology

From lawn +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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

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Footnotes

1. 1597, [Joseph Hall], “”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC: ↩

2. 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: ↩

3. 1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April: ↩