lawny

From lawn +‎ -y.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːni/
• Rhymes: -ɔːni

lawny (not comparable)

1. Made of lawn or fine linen.
   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, / And lawny strips thy naked bosome grace.

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “[Amatory Odes.] Amatory Odes. Ode CXLI. To the Fever, Not to Trouble Julia..”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume I, London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC, page 98:

     'Tis like a lawny firmament, as yet / Quite dispossess'd of either fray or fret.

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. Having or resembling a grass lawn.
   • 1777, Thomas Warton, The First of April:

     Musing through the lawny park.

• Alwyn, wanly