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Definition of Lawny
1. a. Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn.
2. a. Made of lawn or fine linen.
Definition of Lawny
1. Adjective. Made of lawn or fine linen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lawny
1. lawn [adj] - See also: lawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawny
Literary usage of Lawny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... Diana's timorous limbs ;— A fold of lawny mantle dabbling swims Made Ariadne's
cheek look blushingly. Thus I remember all the pleasant flow Of words at ..."
2. A Register of National Bibliography: With a Selection of the Chief by William Prideaux Courtney (1905)
"... lit. in India during 1870, by J. Murdoch, 1871. catal. of maps of Brit,
possessions in I. and other parts of Asia [by Tre- lawny Saunders], ..."
3. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830)
"I see the lawny isle Where first he saw me smile, And fondly knelt : О sweet
delightful hour ! Had not misfortune's power Those days serene o'ercast with ..."
4. The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688: Enriched and by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1866)
"... lawny, but lived and died without any other female friend. When James II.
ascended the throne of Great Britain, his old friend and domestic, ..."
5. Poetry for Home and School by Anna Cabot Lowell (1846)
"LAKE, with lawny banks that slope To the water's edge, Softly rustles the wind
thro' Thy long grass and sedge. " Thou hadst been a gem of earth Couched amid ..."
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