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Lawn   /lɔn/   Listen
noun
Lawn  n.  
1.
An open space between woods. ""Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.""
2.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns.
Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.


Lawn  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. "A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."





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"Lawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... Never mind— Think how much the birdies love it! See them in their dozens drawn, Dancing, to the croquet lawn— Could our little friends have dined If there'd been ...
— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne
... cooks moved actively about upon the lawn, and children romped round the fires, and settlers came flocking through the forests—might have recalled the revelry of merry England in the olden time, though the costumes of the far west were, perhaps, somewhat different from those ...
— The Dog Crusoe and his Master • R.M. Ballantyne
... Bridget?" trilled Grace Harlowe as she raced across the lawn to the front steps with the reckless enthusiasm of a small boy. A glimpse of the postman's retreating back had brought her scurrying from the garden to ...
— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower
... On the lawn paced a young man with a rifle in the crook of his arm. He was tall and young and very gallant of bearing; no less a person than Mortimer Dwight, who had been sworn in that morning as a member of the Citizens' Patrol, and at his own request detailed to keep watch over the ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... with the greatest solicitude one day that autumn, when I had run a thorn into my foot: and the very next day, when I was well again, she laughed to see me worried on the lawn by a bull-terrier. If you have not met a woman like that, I wonder where ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida


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