stablesome

comparative more stablesome · superlative most stablesome

1. rareCharacteristic of a stable (horsebarn).

   Very pleasant is the sensation of being ushered into a pestiferously stablesome drawing-room.

   1899, Rudyard Kipling, The City of Dreadful Night, page 20

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   It was a very sumptuous house, with spacious rooms and all the luxuries a big city can furnish, such a contrast to the bare, stablesome apartments, decorated with a wall-paper of flies, lizards, and ants, to which we had grown accustomed.

   1906, G. A. Mathews, Diary of an Indian Tour, page 142

   Synonyms: stablelike