Definition of "lavender"

lavender

/ˈlæv.ən.də/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural lavenders
1. Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
2. (color) A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
3. (film, historical, uncountable) A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
adjective
comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender
1. (color) Having a pale purple colour.
2. (politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
  Quotations
  “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.
  1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, page 81
3. (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
verb
third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered
1. (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.
  Quotations
  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.
  1986, Katherine Gibson Fougera, With Custer's Cavalry, page 47