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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An open space in a forest or between or among woods; a glade.
  2. n. An open space of ground of some size, covered with grass, and kept smoothly mown, as near a dwelling or in a pleasure-ground.
  3. To make into lawn; lay down in grass as a lawn.
  4. n. Fine linen cambric, used for various purposes: also applied in the trade to various sheer muslins. Lawn is notably used for the sleeves and other parts of the dress of bishops of the Anglican Church. The word is hence much used in allusion to bishops, like ermine in allusion to judges.
  5. n. In ceramics, a fine sieve, generally of silk, through which slip for glazing is passed to bring it to uniform fineness and fluidity.
  6. Made or consisting of lawn.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An open space between woods.
  2. n. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  3. n. uncountable A type of thin linen or cotton.
  4. n. in the plural Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  5. n. countable, obsolete A piece of clothing made from lawn.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An open space between woods.
  2. n. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  3. n. A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a field of cultivated and mowed grass

Etymologies

  1. Apparently from Laon, a town in France known for its linen manufacturing. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of Middle English launde, glade, from Old French, heath, pasture, wooded area. Middle English laun, after Laon, a city of northern France. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo a type of linen: a sp_ce between woods Mar 26, 2009

  • mikeropology An Ancient French loanword originally meaning "a clearing in the woods" (in Gaulish). Jan 31, 2008

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