humorsome

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Tailors, Carlyle's humorsome name in "Sartor" for the architects of the customs and costumes woven for human wear by society, the inventors of our spiritual toggery, the truly poetic class.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

And so, with a careless and humorsome wave of his hand to one side, he went down the staircase, and so out into the quadrangle of the Palace.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But, while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down, with the humorsome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.

From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock

But you're welcome to it, as some of it is rather humorsome, the laugh may do you good ef the story don't.

From Work: a Story of Experience by Alcott, Louisa May

"You'll think me humorsome, boy, but I hev an odd fancy."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various