Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteForsaken by one's lass or mistress.
[…] thy broome-groues; Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues, Being lasse-lorne:
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]3 more examples
1845, George M. Horton, “To Miss Tempe” in The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, Hillsborough, North Carolina: D. Heartt, p. 91, Bless’d hope, when Tempe takes her last long flight, And leaves her lass-lorn lover to complain, Like Luna mantling o’er the brow of night, Thy glowing wing dispels the gloom of pain.
I suspect Lord Hervey to have been a handsome man, and a favourite with the ladies—perhaps a beau garçon;—keen aggravations of an offence in the eyes of the ugly, the diminutive, the lass-lorn, and the unfashionable.
1851, Hartley Coleridge, “Notes on British Poets”, in Essays and Marginalia, volume 2, London: Moxon, page 92“Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”
1897, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 14, in The King’s Highway, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, page 324
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