The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
1939, (w), The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 144:
He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
puhekieltä Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
puhekieltä A piece of clothing made from lawn.
1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:
(..) she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing (..)