gracesome
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gracesome (comparative more gracesome, superlative most gracesome)
- Characterised or marked by grace
- 1891, Los Angeles Herald, page 6:
- Let her remember clearly that a dairy-maid Cleopatra is a gracesome thing.
- 1908, Andrew Harvey Scoble, Sun Time and Cloud Time:
- […] and then hasten I to say adieu or to make excuse that I may not hear of any hand that hath held hers or any ruthless arm that in some stately measure did encircle her gracesome waist.
- 1996, Christopher Sale Wren, Hacks, page 114:
- "Is your journalism progressive?" she asked. "If so, perhaps I stay with you. Rolf is not gracesome."