rainsome

English

Etymology

From rain +‎ -some.

Adjective

rainsome (comparative more rainsome, superlative most rainsome)

  1. (chiefly archaic) Marked by rain or raininess; rainy
    • 1834, State Papers: pt. III:
      Whereof ensued, that the burgessis were straictly kept in dures within the countie of Kildare, unto suche tyme as they were fayne to make fyne and rainsome, […]
    • 2004, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk:
      Anuradha shook her head: she would never forget the relief she felt at Pallavi's words - I'm here, Anuradha - on that fierce, rainsome night.
    • 2009, Catharine Snyder Mortensen, ‎Jim Mortensen, Catharine's Diary:
      Wednesday Dec 10: A rainsome day today. I was to school. Marjorie read out of Bible as usual.
    • 2012, Museum of Natural Sciences, La Plata, Argentina – An emotional journey, http://thewanderlife.com/museum-of-natural-sciences-la-plata-argentina-an-emotional-journey/:
      It was a bleak, rainsome day, and I imagined how majestic the building must look in the sunshine, if it was already as spectacular as it was.

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