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Lawn   /lɔn/   Listen
noun
Lawn  n.  
1.
An open space between woods. ""Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.""
2.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns.
Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.



Lawn  n.  A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. "A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."






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"Lawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... front of the house was covered with those splendid orange-tinted tea-roses that I had noticed in Paradise; thicket on thicket of clove-scented pinks choked the flower-beds; and a broad mat of deep-tinted pansies lay on the lawn, spread out for all the world like a glorious ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

... Mrs. Peet, who came down the lawn with Marjorie, and had heard Dick's reply to Georgie's question, 'It's not the sort of getting better that we understand. He is a bit weaker, if anything. Perhaps 'tis the heat tries him. My poor Dick!' she went on, ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... thing in snowy lingerie with tags of blue ribbon that stood in front of my mirror was as new-born as any other hour-old similar bundle of linen and lace in Hillsboro, Tennessee. Fortunately, an old, year-before-last, white lawn dress could be pulled from the top shelf of the closet in a hurry, and the Molly that came out of that room was ready for life—and a lot of it ...
— The Melting of Molly • Maria Thompson Daviess

... garden with a notebook, a pencil and a book of quotations. By 6.30 I had a list of one hundred and two, and was wavering over the final choice of a parody on "Some hae meat wha canna eat," and an adaptation of "Be sooople, Davie, in things immaterial," when my parent came out to the lawn, flushed and excited, with his last three hairs triumphantly erect, and brandished ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 • Various

... lawn of this house was the bowling green and the old balls are still in the attic there. Also, there is still there an old rose bush bearing small white roses, which was planted by Elizabeth Peter Dunlop. This was my summer home when I was a girl and is now ...
— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker


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