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
"You've the lovesome hand with the beasties," said Pan as he smiled down on the lambs and me.
From The Golden Bird by Chase, Edward L.
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 Earle, Alice Morse
How pleasant, how lovesome, how joyous is life!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John
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 Rainey, W. (William)
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