lawned
- adjective
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- She wore a beautiful lawned dress to the party.
Examples
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The table was covered with a crisp, white lawned cloth for the tea party.
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He admired the lawned curtains that let in soft, filtered sunlight.
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She wore a delicate lawned handkerchief embroidered with tiny roses.
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The lawned fabric feels very soft against the skin.
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The table was covered with a crisp, white lawned cloth for the tea party.
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He admired the lawned curtains that let in soft, filtered sunlight.
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The lawned fabric feels very soft against the skin.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
lawned = lawn (transparent) = lawn + ed
The adjective is transparently derived from the noun 'lawn' with '-ed', meaning made of lawn fabric.
Etymology
Lawned for cloth comes from lawn, the name for a very fine, lightweight fabric once linked to the French town Laon, so you can remember it by thinking of the familiar word linen. That is why a 'lawned' handkerchief or curtain is 'made of lawn', a soft, fine cloth.