lavender

From Middle English lavendre, 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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæv.ən.də/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/

lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)

1. Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
2. a pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

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• (plant): common lavender

• lavender water
• sea lavender
• spike lavender

• launder

• lavender on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lavandula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lavandula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Appendix:Colors

lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)

1. Having a pale purple colour.
2. (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.

lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)

1. (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.

• Vreeland

From Old French lavandiere, from Medieval Latin lavandārius.

• lavendere, lavendre, lavendeer, lawender, lawnder, lawndere, launder

• IPA^(key): /lavənˈdeːr/, /ˈlavəndər/, /lau̯nˈdeːr/, /ˈlau̯ndər/

lavender (plural lavenderes)

1. A washer; one (especially a woman) who washes clothes.
2. (euphemistic) A woman employed in prostitution or having loose morals.

• lavendrye

• English: launder
• Scots: launer

• “lavender(e (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-24.

From Old French lavendre.

lavender

1. Alternative form of lavendre