franksome
English
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editfranksome (comparative more franksome, superlative most franksome)
- Marked or characterised by frankness
- 1836, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Essays, Philanthropic and Moral:
- For still as one by one they grew / To Childhood's franksome years, / They one by one were torn away / To bondage and to tears.
- 1845, The New Monthly Belle Assemblée:
- Pixies of franksome moods / Dreams of delight!
- 1863, Charles Swain, Art and Fashion:
- Ay, ay, a franksome lad — a ne'er-do-well; [...]
- 1869, Edward Vaughan Kenealy, An Autobiography:
- I might have easily attached myself to one of the franksome young gypsies who were about me, and who put forth many a lure, but my heart was unalterably wedded to Francesca; [...]