pulchritude
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pulchritude (uncountable)
- Physical beauty.
- 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4
- One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue, and he was asleep before the final selection.
- 1979, The Jerk, 00:18:20
- Do you know why a woman of such pulchritude is married to me? 'Cause I make a comfortable living.
- Synonyms: comeliness
- 1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4
- French: vénusté, beauté
- German: Schönheit
- Italian: pulcritudine, venustà
- Russian: красота́
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