lawn
noun
a stretch of open, grass-covered land, especially one closely mowed, as near a house, on an estate, or in a park.
lawny
-
a word derived from
lawn.
Example Sentences
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The door at the end of the passage was still open; I still saw out into the little lawny yard, but nobody was stirring.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
V By lawny slope and lucent strand Are singing flags of every land; On streams of splendour—bays impearled— The keels are here of all the world.
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
The long room at one end of which stood the small dining-table looked on the greenness of a lawny, lilac-sheltered garden, so that such light as filtered through the green jalousies was green also.
From The Invader A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods
While the consultations and measurements were going on, Placide’s eye was caught by the motion of a young fawn in the high grass of a lawny slope, on one side of the valley.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
Licking the dish up, As if he thought to pass from black to white, Like parson into lawny bishop.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
