Meaning of lasslorn | Babel Free

Definitions

Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.

not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

““Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look⟳ so lackadaisical and lasslorn.””

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