[f. LAVENDER sb.2] trans. To perfume with lavender; to put lavender among (linen).
1820. Keats, Eve St. Agnes, xxx. In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender’d.
1839. H. Rogers, Ess., II. iii. 148. The word ‘stench’ is lavendered over into ‘unpleasant effluvia,’ or an ‘ill odour.’
a. 1845. Hood, Two Peacocks of Bedfont, xxv. The solemn clerk goes lavender’d and shorn.
1874. M. Collins, Transmigr., III. i. 3. I lay there, amid lavendered linen.
1875. Tennyson, Q. Mary, III. v. It shall be all my study for one hour To rose and lavender my horsiness.
1893. M. Gray, Last Sentence, I. v. Snowy linen lavendered by the young bride’s own hands.
¶ Used (after LAVENDER sb.1) for LAUNDER v. 1.
1844. Willis, in New Mirror, 11 May, 96/1 (Cent.). The smell of soap, from the lavendering in the back-yard, gave a stain to such flowers of imagination as were born there.
