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† cobweb lawn Obs.
[see cobweb n. 6.]
A very fine transparent lawn.
1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 64 To couer his fine daughter Sib, with Copweb-lawne to catch butterflies. 1640in Entick London II. 174 Cobweb lawns, each 15 yards. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 4 Mrs. Turner, the first inventress of yellow starch, was executed in a cobweb lawn ruff of that colour, at Tyburn. 1691Satyr agst. French 21 With Complements as thin as Cob-web Lawn.
fig.1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornful Lady iv. i, Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. |