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
How pleasant, how lovesome, how joyous is life!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
Father is a gentleman of metely good height, and well-presenced, but something heavy built: of a dark brown hair, a broad white brow, and dark grey eyes that be rare sweet and lovesome.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
First he roused Iris of the golden wings to speed forth and call the fair-tressed Demeter, the lovesome in beauty.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
Ulenspiegel, thinking sadly of Nele, thus made answer: “I come from Flanders, a lovely land and filled with lovesome girls.”
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
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