Meanings
adjectivelaboursome (comparative more laboursome, superlative most laboursome)
comparative more laboursome · superlative most laboursome · alternative laborsome
- obsoleteHard-working.
- archaicCharacterised or marked by labour; laborious; difficult, elaborate, involved.
your laboursome and dainty trims
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]
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