- LAVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Lave is a simple, monosyllabic word that magically makes the mundane act of washing poetic Shakespeare used it in The Taming of the Shrew when Gremio assured the father of his beloved Bianca that she would have "basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands "
- LAVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Lave definition: to wash; bathe See examples of LAVE used in a sentence
- Lave - definition of lave by The Free Dictionary
To wash; bathe 2 To lap or wash against: Waves laved the shore 3 To refresh or soothe as if by washing: "The quiet and the cool laved her" (Edna Ferber) [Middle English laven, from Old English gelafian and from Old French laver, both from Latin lavāre; see leu (ə)- in Indo-European roots ]
- LAVE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Definition of 'lave' lave in British English (leɪv ) verb an archaic word for wash
- lave - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
lave (plural laves) (archaic except literary, poetic) An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash quotations
- Lave Definition Meaning | YourDictionary
Lave definition: To wash; bathe
- lave, v. ¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb lave, three of which are labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
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