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stillsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From still + -some.

Meanings

1. (archaic, poetic) Marked by stillness; quietsome
   • Clear streams that thro' so many winding ways / Stray to the mighty ocean, murm'ring flow, / And make sweet music in the stillsome air. 1883, James Middleton Sutherland, Douglas, and other poems:
   • Where many a flow'r deck'd in beauty rare, / Imparted fragrance to the stillsome air; [...] 1846, Edward Mordaunt Spencer, The Heir of Abbotsville:

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