a. Obs. exc. arch. Also 5 strowen, 6–7 strawne. [f. STRAW sb.1 + -EN4.] Made of straw.
1459. in Paston Lett., I. 477. Item, ij. strawen hattis.
c. 1550. Vertuous Scholehous, K iij b. The Celibate lyfe is a strawen Loue, whiche euery houre is broken and rent asunder of one worde onely.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. 122 b. The legges must be often rubbed with a strawen wispe.
1580. Fulke, Dang. Rock, xviii. 307. Luther calleth it [the Epistle of James] a strawen Epistle.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., V. v. 50. Let him lodge hard, and lie in strawen bed.
1597. Bp. Hall, Sat., III. vii. 66. Lik’st a strawne scar-crow in the new-sowne field, Reard on some sticke, the tender corne to shield.
1609. C. Butler, Fem. Mon. (1634), 34. In some countries they use strawn Hives.
1636. Coach & Sedan, B j. Cudgell’d thick on the backe … with broad shining lace (not much unlike that which Mummeres make of strawen hatts).
1861. Reade, Cloister & H., xxxi. Like wee icicles a-melting down from strawen eaves.
1864. Allingham, Lawrence Bloomfield, vii. 95. Oona … in her accustom’d strawen chair.
