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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1499-1610

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Lusum, a. Also: lusume, lusome; luissum. Superl. lusumest. [Reduced var. of Lufesum a.: cf. midl. and south. ME. lussum (13th c.), lussom, lossum (14th c.) Cf. also Luvesum.] Lovable, admirable; lovely, beautiful. Also absol. as noun.(a) a1500 Henr. Annunciation 61.
O lady lele and lusumest, Thy face moist fair & schene is
c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxix. 9.
Swet lusty lusum lady clere
1535 Stewart 18842.
Ilk lusum ladie for hir lordis saik … did … weip
1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 116.
Thy sanctis … preiche … Of Thy riche renown the heuinly lusum lycht
c1600 Montg. Suppl. iv. 3, vii. 1. c1610 Melville Mem. 124.
I said … that the Quen of England was whytter bot our Quen was very lusome
absol. a1568 Bannatyne MS 229 a/46.
Allone vnder the lusty lynd I saw ane lusum lent
(b) a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxix. 52.
This plesant plant … The bark thairof wes fair proportion, The bodye haill wes luissum lawlines

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