lavender

noun

1. 1

   Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.

2. 2

   A pale bluish purple or violet colour, like that of the lavender flower.

3. 3

   historicalA kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

adjective

1. 1

   Having a pale purple colour.

2. 2

   Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.

   “Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.

   My sother (significant other) and I have been together almost nineteen years. Exactly half of the usual wedding vows taken traditionally by non-lavender couples — for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, — have been characteristic of our relationship.

3. 3

   Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.

verb

1. 1

   To decorate or perfume with lavender.

   Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.

Forms

plural

lavenders

comparative

more lavender

superlative

most lavender

past tense

lavendered

past participle

lavendered

present participle

lavendering

third person singular

lavenders