lasslorn
English
Etymology
lass + lorn
Adjective
lasslorn (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
- 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 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- […] 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,
- 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,
- 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,
- “Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”
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