also FULGROUS
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fulgur (lightning, a flash of lightning) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… and, iust at thinstant, all the canons plaien
frome towne to Campe, from Camp to towne againe,
in suche ann horrid noise, and flaminge light,
as if noone daie weare wedded to midd night:
or as if th’ pitchie clowdes of fulgrous heavn
had taen their In vp, neath the spheres seaven. …”
From: John Lane’s Continuation of Chaucer’s ‘Squire’s Tale’
By John Lane, 1616
PRONUNCIATION
FUL-gyuh-ruhss
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