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
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
It is a dear thing a little town, 'a lovesome thing, God wot,' and Priorsford is the pick of all little towns.
From Penny Plain by O. Douglas
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 Andrew Lang
I said they were both the fairest ladies of their courts, and that the Queen of England was whiter, but our Queen very lovesome.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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