lovesome
Americanadjective
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inspiring love; lovely; lovable.
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amorous; loving.
Etymology
Origin of lovesome
before 1000; Middle English lovesom, Old English lufsum. See love, -some 1
Example Sentences
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"A Garden," burbled Victorian Poet Thomas Edward Brown, "is a lovesome thing, God wot!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Gaze steady where yon starless deep the gaze revolts, And say, Seest thou a Titan forging thunderbolts, Or three fair butterflies at lovesome play?
From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Ah, how lovesome should you be, under dat bush by the gate, that hath de yellow flowers, when de sun was setting, and all golden behind you!
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey
"Wait but a little moment, then, while I go in to fetch the magic-glass, that will show you your face, Immanâla, handsome and lovesome."
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
Thou wast fair, thou wast bonnie, my Marion, And lovesome thy rising breast-bane; The dew sat in gems ower thy ringlets, By the thorn when we were alane.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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