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cradlesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From cradle + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by cradling.
   • But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around. 1947, Crow Field, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair. 1956, The Marble Orchard
   • And Geneva-Honey Crowningburg — she of the cradlesome escutcheon, the electric wool — she looms in a paper-shaded brokeneye and waves "bye- bye" (which is dumb since her man is plainly coming home, not going away). 1975, North Carolina Quarterly - Volumes 27-28

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