lanai

Etymology

From Hawaiian lānai.

noun

1. (chiefly Hawaii, Florida) A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
   ‘If they vomit in the lanai, that's for the butler to handle.’ 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 22
   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. March 11 2007, Tracie Rozhon, “To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime”, in New York Times
   Afterward, Lili‘u and Stevenson found time to talk quietly with each other on the bungalow's lānai. 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 158