lay in lavender

English

Verb

lay in lavender (third-person singular simple present lays in lavender, present participle laying in lavender, simple past and past participle laid in lavender)

To store (clothing, etc.) with sprigs of lavender, i.e. to keep fresh.
(obsolete, by extension) To pawn.
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Alternative forms

lay up in lavender

References

John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lay in lavender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)