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Lightsome adj.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. "White walls make rooms more lightsome than black."

Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. "That lightsome affection of joy." "Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala dress."

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Etymology of 'Lightsome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lightsome" Quotes from Famous Books

... wind, which had been a scarcely perceptible breath, freshened, and between the busy shovels and the swaying branches the air was full of glittering crystals. The bride-like world was throwing off her ornaments and preparing for the prose of every-day life; and yet she did so in a cheerful, lightsome mood. The sunny eaves dropped a profusion of gems from the melting snow. There was a tinkle of water in the pipes leading to the cistern. From the cackle in the barn-yard it appeared that the hens had resolved on unwonted industry, and were ...

— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe

... seemed the dark castle had gathered all Those shafts the fierce sun had shot over its wall In his siege of three hundred summers long, And, binding them all in one blazing sheaf, 135 Had cast them forth: so, young and strong, And lightsome as a locust-leaf, Sir Launfal flashed forth in his unscarred mail, To seek in all climes for the ...

— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell

... wi' carking care and gloom That make life's pathway weedy O! A cheerful glass makes flowers to bloom And lightsome hours fly ...

— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field

... Lightsome, brightsome, cousin mine, Easy, breezy Caroline! With thy locks all raven-shaded, From thy merry brow up-braided, And thine eyes of laughter full, Brightsome cousin mine! Thou in chains of love hast bound me— Wherefore dost thou flit around me, ...

— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun

... ah me! of mirth; There's nothing lightsome left on earth: Only one scene is fain, O, Where far remote The moonbeams gloat, And sleeps the lovely ...

— Songs of Childhood • Walter de la Mare

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