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lasslorn

lasslorn adjective: forsaken by one's lass or mistress.

Adjective

lasslorn (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
    • […] thy broome-groues;
      Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues,
      Being lasse-lorne: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...
    • 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.1845, George M. Horton, “To Miss Tempe” in The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, Hillsborough, North Carolina: D. Heartt, p. 91

Origin of lasslorn

From lass + lorn.

Questions about lasslorn

What does lasslorn mean?
Lasslorn means forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
What part of speech is lasslorn?
Lasslorn is an adjective.

Words near lasslorn in the dictionary

  1. Lassiter
  2. Lassiters
  3. lassitude
  4. lassitudes
  5. lassitudinous
  6. lasslorn
  7. lasso
  8. lasso cell
  9. lasso cells
  10. lasso peptide
  11. lasso peptides

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