Lavender meaning

lăv'ən-dər
A pale to light purple to very light or very pale violet.
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Any of a genus (Lavandula) of fragrant European plants of the mint family, having spikes of pale-purplish flowers and yielding an aromatic oil (oil of lavender)
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The dried flowers, leaves, and stalks of this plant, used to fill sachets and to perfume clothes, linens, etc.
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A pale purple.
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Pale-purple.
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Of or having to do with homosexuals or homosexuality.
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To perfume with lavender.
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Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
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A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

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Having a pale purple colour.
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Origin of lavender

  • Middle English lavendre from Anglo-Norman from Medieval Latin livendula, lavendula perhaps from Latin līvidus bluish livid
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French: lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish"), but influenced by lavare (“wash") due to use of lavender in washing clothes.
    From Wiktionary

Lavender Sentence Examples

  • The parcel contained a beautiful lavender dress, causing Cynthia to let out a slight gasp.

  • The Portsmouth Road from the south-west is well marked as far as Lambeth, under the names of Wandsworth, High Street, St John's Hill, Lavender Hill and Wandsworth Road.

  • The skirt is black, while the waist is mostly yellow, trimmed with delicate lavender chiffon, and black velvet bows and lace.

  • The best known of these are cloves, pimento (allspice), myrtle, eucalyptus, caraway, fennel, dill, coriander, rosemary, lavender, peppermint, spearmint, nutmeg, cinnamon, sandal-wood, turpentine, juniper berries, valerian and sumbul.

  • The Metropolitan police courts are fourteen in number, namely - Bow Street, Covent Garden; Clerkenwell; Great Marlborough Street (Westminster); Greenwich and Woolwich; Lambeth; Marylebone; North London, Stoke Newington Road; Southwark; South Western, Lavender Hill (Battersea); Thames, Arbour Street East (Stepney); West Ham; West London, Vernon Street (Fulham); Westminster, Vincent Square; Worship Street (Shoreditch).

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