lasslorn

English

Etymology

lass +‎ lorn

Adjective

lasslorn (not comparable)

1. (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.”