lasslorn
English
Etymology
Adjective
lasslorn (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623,[1]
- […] 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,[2]
- 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, London: Moxon, Volume 2, p. 92,[3]
- 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, The King’s Highway, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., Chapter 14, p. 324,[4]
- “Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623,[1]