Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
lawn . - noun A plain sprinkled with trees or brush; an open space between woods; a park.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade.
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- noun archaic a grassy
plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; aglade
Etymologies
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Examples
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AND therewith he passed unto the one side of the laund; and on the other side saw Sir Gawaine ten knights that hoved still and made them ready with their shields and spears against that one knight that came by Sir Gawaine.
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So, on the morn they rode into the forest of adventures to a laund, and thereby they found a cross, and as they stood and hoved there came by them the fairest knight and the seemliest man that ever they saw, making the greatest dole that ever man made.
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When Sir Beaumains heard him say thus, he said, Sir knight, thou art full large of my horse and my harness; I let thee wit it cost thee nought, and whether it liketh thee or not, this laund will I pass maugre thine head.
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Thus as they talked they saw a knight on the other side of the laund all armed save the head.
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And they came to a black laund; and there was a black hawthorn, and thereon hung a black banner, and on the other side there hung a black shield, and by it stood a black spear great and long, and a great black horse covered with silk, and a black stone fast by.
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There, in a laund or glade in the midmost part of the forest, he found an old and white dame, kneeling before a green cross beside the path, weeping piteously as she prayed and beat her breast.
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert
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Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old form of lawn.
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Once, as he strayed deep in the wood, he came upon a wide glade or laund, with two green hillocks in the middle thereof.
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert
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AND therewith he passed unto the one side of the laund; and on the other side saw Sir Gawaine ten knights that hoved still and made them ready with their shields and spears against that one knight that came by Sir Gawaine.
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When Sir Beaumains heard him say thus, he said, Sir knight, thou art full large of my horse and my harness; I let thee wit it cost thee nought, and whether it liketh thee or not, this laund will I pass maugre thine head.
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