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artsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From art + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised by art, the arts, or artistry
   • But Life will not yield up her more intimate secrets for eighteenpence an hour; and these earnest young ladies and artsome young men, when they have filled portfolios with such sordid life studies, know less about living humanity than they did before, … 2015 (original 1900), George Bernard Shaw, When We Dead Awaken
   • [...] it is laughatable ((absurd)) to think that the lower races can judge of artsome howths [qualities] that are too far above them for them to be able to see at all. 2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger:
   • Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself. 2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism:

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