rainsome
English
Etymology
From rain + -some.
Adjective
rainsome (comparative more rainsome, superlative most rainsome)
- (chiefly archaic) Marked by rain or raininess; rainy
- 1834, State Papers: pt. III:
- Whereof ensued, that the burgessis were straictly kept in dures within the countie of Kildare, unto suche tyme as they were fayne to make fyne and rainsome, […]
- 2004, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk:
- Anuradha shook her head: she would never forget the relief she felt at Pallavi's words - I'm here, Anuradha - on that fierce, rainsome night.
- 2009, Catharine Snyder Mortensen, Jim Mortensen, Catharine's Diary:
- Wednesday Dec 10: A rainsome day today. I was to school. Marjorie read out of Bible as usual.
- 2012, Museum of Natural Sciences, La Plata, Argentina – An emotional journey, http://thewanderlife.com/museum-of-natural-sciences-la-plata-argentina-an-emotional-journey/:
- It was a bleak, rainsome day, and I imagined how majestic the building must look in the sunshine, if it was already as spectacular as it was.
- 1834, State Papers: pt. III:
Anagrams
- Romanies, Romanise, Romnesia, moraines, romaines, romanise, rosamine