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beautisome en · ADJ

Etymology

From beauty + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by beauty
   • … and the Duchess, she is main kind too, and though she be so mortal beautisome and young, she be as free and as considerate to us poor folks as—… 1823, Catherine George Ward Mason, The Cottage on the Cliff: a Sea Side Story
   • De exterior may appear remarkably exemplary and beautisome, while de interior is totally negative. 1836, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:
   • You know what is meant by, “Hello, beauti—” It would not be “beautisome” or “beautiwhole” or “beautiable.” It has to be “beautiful.” That is the one ending we are used to. It is part of our language, part of our culture. 2014, Clarence Whetstone, Help Me Understand the Bible:
   • [...] leaving his beautisome daughter without dependants against the very man who had impoverished her house, and robbed her, by falsified brutation, of her mother. 1841, The Monthly magazine, page 10:
   • “This here's my pard, Wilbur Coleman.” Wilbur opened his mouth to say something, but all that came out was a nervous squeak. “You got to pardon ol' Wilbur,” Stovepipe went on. “He ain't much for talkin', especially around beautisome ladies. 2011, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Arizona Ambush:

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