Lasslorn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lasslorn is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
Meaning
(obsolete) Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
Example Sentences
[…] thy broome-groues; Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues, Being lasse-lorne:
“Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lorn, forlorne, foresaken, forcasten, lascivient, lothfull.
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