lawny

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   made of or resembling lawn, a fine, lightweight linen or cotton fabric

   The curtains had a diaphanous, lawny texture that stirred in the wind.

2. 2
   adj

   covered with or resembling a grass lawn

   A lawny slope descended from the house to the lake.

From lawn + -y. Its two senses reflect unrelated meanings of lawn: a fine fabric, borrowed through French from a place name associated with linen, and an area of short grass, from a Germanic source.

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