Laid out in lavender informal
To make a dead body ready to be buried. To conceal its decomposition scent from the former practice of flinging lavender flowers over and around a body.
I'll never forget the visage of my grandmother laid up in lavender.
To greatly scoriate or scold one
My mother laid me out in lavender for breaking her precious vase.
To be out of date, not be used for a long time.
A small heavy object for holding paper in place.
To be in the process of leaving.
It is often used in past tense and past participle tense.
The lavender flower is well-known in aroma. This flower was placed close to the coffin at funerals in order to hide the body's smell. In the past, ladies would beat their freshly washed laundry with the branches of the plant in order to transfer the wonderful smell of the flower onto their clothing. 'Lay someone out in lavender' was meant to beat a person until he became unconscious. The beating became more verbal than physical with the passage of time.