eyesome
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Etymology edit
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eyesome (comparative more eyesome, superlative most eyesome)
- (archaic, often poetic) Visually attractive.
- 1919, Thomas Hardy, “The Background and the Figure (Lover's Ditty)”, in Moments of Vision:
- Between the blooms where the sod basked bright,
By the bobbing fuchsia trees,
Was another and yet more eyesome sight—
The sight that richened these.
- 2004 June 13, David W. Dunlap, “The Crossroads of the Crossroads”, in New York Times, page CY3:
- Get a load of the "eyesome femininity" at the International Casino, as the Times put it.
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.