laboursome
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- laborsome (US)
Etymology
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]laboursome (comparative more laboursome, superlative most laboursome)
- (obsolete) Hard-working.
- (now rare) Characterised or marked by labour; laborious; difficult, elaborate, involved.
- 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]:
- your laboursome and dainty trims