lay in lavender

present singular third person lays in lavender · participle present laying in lavender · participle past laid in lavender · past laid in lavender · alternative lay up in lavender

1. To store (clothing, etc.) with sprigs of lavender, i.e. to keep fresh.
2. broadlyidiomaticobsoleteTo pawn.

   17th century, Aphra Behn, The Luckey Chance I have business, very earnest business abroad this Evening; now were you a Rascal of Docity, you wou’d invent a way to get home my last Suit that was laid in Lavender—with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging, as Perriwig, Cravat, and so forth.