gracesome

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From grace +‎ -some.

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gracesome (comparative more gracesome, superlative most gracesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by grace
    • 1891, Los Angeles Herald, page 6:
      Let her remember clearly that a dairy-maid Cleopatra is a gracesome thing.
    • 1908, Andrew Harvey Scoble, Sun Time and Cloud Time:
      [] and then hasten I to say adieu or to make excuse that I may not hear of any hand that hath held hers or any ruthless arm that in some stately measure did encircle her gracesome waist.
    • 1996, Christopher Sale Wren, Hacks, page 114:
      "Is your journalism progressive?" she asked. "If so, perhaps I stay with you. Rolf is not gracesome."

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