Meaning of lawn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
   countable, uncountable
2. pasture
3. A type of thin linen or cotton.
   uncountable
4. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
5. An open space between woods.
   England, countable, historical, regional, uncountable
6. Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
7. An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
8. grass
9. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
   countable, uncountable
10. A piece of clothing made from lawn.
    countable, obsolete
11. A town in Texas, United States.
12. synonym of pastún (“Pashto”)
13. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
14. first-person singular present indicative of pastar

Equivalents

Examples

“Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.”

“Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.”

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

“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.”

“[…] 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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