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English
Etymology
From fair + -some.
Adjective
fairsome (comparative more fairsome, superlative most fairsome)
- Characterised by fairness or beauty; characteristically fair; attractive
1873, A. E. Kroeger, The Minnesinger of Germany:That love for which thy heart does burn / Is nought but foolish vanity. / A fairsome image was my choice; [...]
- 1902, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern:
- Yet still I love the fairsome — why? / For nothing but to please my eye:
2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of That Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood:Bid the women stoke the fire, for we'll have company at breakfast—a fairsome brace, and a fearsome face, whose foul fit should give him monstrous appetite!