Lanai
Origin
From Hawaiian lÄnai.
Full definition of lanai
Noun
lanai
(plural lanais)- (chiefly in Hawaii) A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 22:‘If they vomit in the lanai, that's for the butler to handle.’
- In Honolulu, Nancy Peacock, an architect, said her clients increasingly requested “punees,†as daybeds are known in Hawaii — sometimes on the lanai, the covered porch of the house.