ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pulchritudin-, pulchritudo (beauty) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Returning to the pulchritudinous Fanny Newlove, she was reclining on a settee, listening with all her ears, to the ‘out pourings’ of a personage, whose appearance at once apprehended my attention, as indicative of anything except the clean potato …”
From: The Anglo-American Magazine
From July to December, 1854
Vol V, ‘The Purser’s Cabin’
PRONUNCIATION
pul-kruh-CHOO-duh-nuhss
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