brightsome meaning (archaic): definition

brightsome

adj

Etymology From bright + -some.

Archaic Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining.

But rather let the brightsome heavens be dim, And nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds, Than my fair Abigail should frown on me.c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act II:
[A]ll the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation.1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 45, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:

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This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night!1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Wood Fire”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier:
The few chairs and the low table had been stripped of paint to reveal the brightsome grain of pine wood.2008, Paul S. Sunga, Red Dust, Red Sky, →ISBN, page 117:
Her hair it was of a brightsome color, [...]2010, William Bay, Fun with Strums Mandolin:
“[...] this point, characteristically, the speaker writes himself into the relation: his dull skin requires the “brightsome Colours” of Joseph's coat but more especially of Christ's blood and glory.”2014, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric: