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  • noun Plural form of lanai.

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Examples

  • Don Eovino It has a wine room, pool and spa, a Balinese-style cabana and about 2,000 square feet of covered lanais.

    Private Properties 2011

  • It has a wine room, pool and spa, a Balinese-style cabana and about 2,000 square feet of covered lanais.

    $49.9 Million Lake Tahoe Compound Being Offered as Individual Parcels 2011

  • It's built in the shape of a rectangle, surrounded by deep porches, or lanais.

    Poetry in the Palms Julia Flynn Siler 2011

  • Pacific we try to persuade our dying captain to run for Honolulu, and while I persuade I see myself again drinking cocktails on the cool lanais and fizzes out at Waikiki where the surf rolls in.

    Chapter 39 2010

  • And old men, on cool and balmy lanais, toothlessly maundered to her about

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • He knew the holoku in the home of its origin, where, on the lanais of Hawaii, it gave charm to a plain woman and double-folded the charm of a charming woman.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger lanais

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • Rooms on the second and third floors boasted private balconies—lanais, Claire corrected her whenever Bonnie slipped and used the more familiar term—and some had spectacular views of the ocean.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • Rooms on the second and third floors boasted private balconies—lanais, Claire corrected her whenever Bonnie slipped and used the more familiar term—and some had spectacular views of the ocean.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

  • Rooms on the second and third floors boasted private balconies—lanais, Claire corrected her whenever Bonnie slipped and used the more familiar term—and some had spectacular views of the ocean.

    The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010

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