Obs. [see COBWEB sb. 6.] A very fine transparent lawn.
1603. H. Crosse, Vertues Commw. (1878), 64. To couer his fine daughter Sib, with Copweb-lawne to catch butterflyes.
1640. in Entick, London, II. 174. Cobweb lawns, each 15 yards.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1655), II. 4. Mistress Turner, the first inventress of yellow-Starch was executed in a Cobweb Lawn Ruff of that color at Tyburn.
1691. Satyr agst. French, 21.
| Their Souls unto their Mistresses they Pawn, | |
| With Complements as thin as Cob-web Lawn. |
fig. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Scornful Lady, IV. i. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn.
