Meaning of dragonsome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic or typical of dragons

Examples

““A Duchess of Saxony— fancy some dragonsome dowager—tearing across in the snow, to help a Duke of Burgundy, was it? She slid from the top down to—Lanslebourg, isn't it? ” She laughed.”

“One is the youngest male Linden, nicely presented by Mr. Derek Williams ; the other, a female, dragonsome Linden, is the best part in the piece.”

“[...] other critics, wrote, 'Is it a trick of the mind that one seems to have plenteously beheld Miss Binnie Hale masquerading as a pert yet loving chambermaid, Mr Bobby Howes disguised as a winsome valet or chauffeur and various other capable ladies masquerading as dragonsome châtelaines in whose establishments elderly fribbles surreptitiously carouse?”

“He gave high praise to Mona Limerick's 'dragonsome Blanche' and thought Shaw would redraft his description of his character Cokane as played by Charles Bibby.”

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