LAWN (2)

Lawn, n. [[Earlier laune lynen, i.e., lawn linen; prob. from the town Laon in France.]] A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope.