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dragonsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From dragon + -some.

Meanings

1. Characteristic or typical of dragons.
   • He gave high praise to Mona Limerick's 'dragonsome Blanche' and thought Shaw would redraft his description of his character Cokane as played by Charles Bibby. 1990, Sheila Gooddie, Annie Horniman:
   • One is the youngest male Linden, nicely presented by Mr. Derek Williams ; the other, a female, dragonsome Linden, is the best part in the piece. 1969, James Agate, More first nights:
   • “A Duchess of Saxony— fancy some dragonsome dowager—tearing across in the snow, to help a Duke of Burgundy, was it? She slid from the top down to—Lanslebourg, isn't it? ” She laughed. 1913, Charles Edward Montague, The Morning's War:
   • [...] other critics, wrote, 'Is it a trick of the mind that one seems to have plenteously beheld Miss Binnie Hale masquerading as a pert yet loving chambermaid, Mr Bobby Howes disguised as a winsome valet or chauffeur and various other capable ladies masquerading as dragonsome châtelaines in whose establishments elderly fribbles surreptitiously carouse? 1974, Anthony Curtis, The Rise and Fall of the Matinée Idol:

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