brightsome

comparative more brightsome · superlative most brightsome

1. archaicMarked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining.

   Her hair it was of a brightsome color, [...]

   2010, William Bay, Fun with Strums Mandolin

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   But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim, And nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds, Than my fair Abigail should frown on me.

   c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act II

   [A]ll the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation.

   1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 45, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

   This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!

   1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Wood Fire”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier

   The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood.

   2008, Paul S. Sunga, Red Dust, Red Sky, →ISBN, page 117

   “[...] this point, characteristically, the speaker writes himself into the relation: his dull skin requires the “brightsome Colours” of Joseph's coat but more especially of Christ's blood and glory.”

   2014, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric

   Synonyms: brilliant, luminous