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Sep. 19, 2014
Word of the Day

pilar Audio Pronunciation
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\PAHY-ler\
adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or covered with hair.
Quotes
Their bodies are remarkably smooth, and devoid of pilar hair…
-- James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, 1826
Origin
Pilar came to English in the mid-1800s from the New Latin pilāris meaning "of hair."
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