Meanings
comparative more fairsome · superlative most fairsome
- Characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive
Yet still I love the fairsome — why? / For nothing but to please my eye: …
1902, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern2 more examples
That love for which thy heart does burn / Is nought but foolish vanity. / A fairsome image was my choice; [...]
1873, A. E. Kroeger, The Minnesinger of GermanyBid the women stoke the fire, for we'll have company at breakfast—a fairsome brace, and a fearsome face, whose foul fit should give him monstrous appetite!
2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood
Origin
- Englishfair
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*somHós
- Proto-Germanic*samaz
- Englishfairsome
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