gracesome en · ADJ
Etymology
From grace + -some.
Meanings
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Characterised or marked by grace; gracious.
"Is your journalism progressive?" she asked. "If so, perhaps I stay with you. Rolf is not gracesome."
1996, Christopher Sale Wren, Hacks, page 114:[…] and then hasten I to say adieu or to make excuse that I may not hear of any hand that hath held hers or any ruthless arm that in some stately measure did encircle her gracesome waist.
1908, Andrew Harvey Scoble, Sun Time and Cloud Time:Let her remember clearly that a dairy-maid Cleopatra is a gracesome thing.
1891, Los Angeles Herald, page 6:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more gracesome | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most gracesome | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |