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Subject: pulchritudinous: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Aug. 27, 2014

pulchritudinous \puhl-kri-TOOD-n-uhs, -TYOOD-\ adjective 1. physically beautiful; comely. Quotes Jazz buffs with glorious vocabularies wrote long and often boring tributes to the pulchritudinous Lady Day, her phrasing and incredibly intricate harmonics. -- Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman, 1981 Origin Pulchritudinous is built on the Latin word for "beautiful," pulcher. The noun pulchritude entered English in the mid-1400s; pulchritudinous did not gain traction in the US until the late 1800s.

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