cradlesome

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Characterised or marked by cradling

   • But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.
   • No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.
   • And Geneva-Honey Crowningburg — she of the cradlesome escutcheon, the electric wool — she looms in a paper-shaded brokeneye and waves "bye- bye" (which is dumb since her man is plainly coming home, not going away).

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