lavender
English
Etymology
From Middle English lavendre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. lavendre (French: lavande), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "ML." is not valid. See WT:LOL. lavendula, possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavare (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/
Noun
lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)
- Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
- a pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
- lavender:
- web lavender:
Hyponyms
- (plant): common lavender
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See also
- Template:projectlink
- Lavandula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Template:commonslite
- Appendix:Colors
Adjective
lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)
- Having a pale purple colour.
- (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
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Verb
lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)
- (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.
- 1986, Katherine Gibson Fougera, With Custer's Cavalry, page 47:
- Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French lavandiere, from Medieval Latin lavandārius.
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Noun
lavender (plural lavenderes)
- A washer; one (especially a woman) who washes clothes.
- (euphemistic) A woman employed in prostitution or having loose morals.
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References
- “lavender(e (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-24.
Etymology 2
From Old French lavendre.
Noun
lavender
- Alternative form of lavendre
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