• Lanai

    Origin

    From Hawaiian lānai.

    Full definition of lanai

    Noun

    lanai

    (plural lanais)
    1. (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.
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