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English
Etymology
From lawn + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lawny (not comparable)
- Made of lawn or fine linen.
c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, / And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.
1648, Robert Herrick, “ Amatory Odes. Ode CXLI. 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 Hunt, , →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume I, London: H. G. Clarke and Co., , 1844, →OCLC, page 98:'Tis like a lawny firmament, as yet / Quite dispossess'd of either fray or fret.
- Having or resembling a grass lawn.
1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April:Musing through the lawny park.
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