Lawn
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A short encyclopedia entry defining lawn as a very thin fabric of fine linen or cotton yarns, used for light dresses, trimmings and handkerchiefs. It notes the overlap with cambric and discusses the word's etymology, tracing it to the French town Laon rather than to linon. It also covers the separate word for a grassy lawn, derived from Old French launde.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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