laying in lavender

Verb

lay in lavender (third-person singular simple present lays in lavender, present participle laying in lavender, simple past and past participle laid in lavender)

1. To store (clothing, etc.) with sprigs of lavender, i.e. to keep fresh.
2. (broadly, idiomatic, obsolete) To 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.