Meanings
comparative more coolsome · superlative most coolsome
- Characterised or marked by coolness.
Well, by morning the little girl was coolsome, but plumb wore down to nothing.
2014, Bruce Thorstad, Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West2 more examples
Ferny dells; wide uplands, dappled with rays of golden light; intense depths of coolsome shadowy boughs heavy with leafiness, and ringing with music; stately “pillared aisles” of glorious trees, which in the olden time lent life and vigour to the scene […]
1869, John Greville Fennell, The Rail and the Rod, Or, Tourist-angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Thirty Miles Around LondonI din't say yay, I said, coolsome'n'stony, Grazin' goats ain't int'restin' for folks with so much Smart as you.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
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