lawn

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Caring for your lawn is a balancing act, and the way you mow will influence its health and attractiveness.

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  1. noun A plot of grass, usually tended or mowed, as one around a residence or in a park or estate.
  2. noun A light cotton or linen fabric of very fine weave.

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  • “It didn't stop to rain, it tumbled down,” as my men used to say, and in about half an hour the lawn was a sheet of water, the ground being so hard, that it could not soak away. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • Caring for your lawn is a balancing act, and the way you mow will influence its health and attractiveness. —  News & Record Article Feed
  • Get off my lawn could be about chasing kids off the lawn, of course, but the lawn in question could be expanded to any kind of territory that needs protecting. —  PyWeek Diary Entries
  • "Get off my lawn could be about chasing kids off the lawn, of course, but the lawn in question could be expanded to any kind of territory that needs protecting." —  PyWeek Diary Entries
  • The sight of the soldiers dropping to the lawn is authentically chilling. —  Self-Styled Siren
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  1. Alteration of Middle English launde, glade, from Old French, heath, pasture, wooded area; see lendh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English laun, after Laon, a city of northern France.

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  1. A corruption of lawnd, laund: see laund.
  2. from lawn, n.
  3. Early modern English also lawne, laune, from Middle English lawnde, launde; origin uncertain; by some regarded as a peculiar use of lawn, either “because from its fineness it was bleached on a lawn or smooth grassy sward” (Imp. Dict.) (whereas the word existed in the form laund, lawnd, at a time when the other word lawn, earlier laund, lawnd, had not the sense of ‘a bleaching-lawn’), or because, as “a transparent covering,” it might be derived from the sense of “a vista through trees” (Wedgwood). The probable source is that pointed out by Skeat, namely, French Laon (formerly also Lan), a town near Rheims. Lawn was formerly also called “cloth of Rheims,” and Rheims is not far from Cambray and Tournay, which have given cambric and dornick respectively (Skeat). For the form, cf. fawn, from French faon.
 

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