lasslorn

English

Etymology

lass +‎ lorn

Adjective

lasslorn (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
   • 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]:

     […] thy broome-groues;
     Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues,
     Being lasse-lorne:

   • 1845, George M. Horton, “To Miss Tempe” in The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, Hillsborough, North Carolina: D. Heartt, p. 91,^[1]

     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.

   • 1851, Hartley Coleridge, “Notes on British Poets”, in Essays and Marginalia‎^[2], volume 2, London: Moxon, page 92:

     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.

   • 1897, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 14, in The King’s Highway‎^[3], New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, page 324:

     “Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”