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
She had short, curling, dark hair, irregular features, and violet eyes—not a bit handsome, but big and bonny and lovesome.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
Now he had a very fair and lovesome lady to wife, by name Mistress Tessa, who was the daughter of Mannuccio dalla Cuculia and was exceeding discreet and well advised.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot; Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot, The veriest school of Peace; And yet the fool Contends that God is not in gardens.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
All angels' life is to look upon Thy face, for Thy cheer is so marvellously lovesome and pleasant to look upon....
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
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