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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pulchritudinous

1877, American English, from pulchritude (from Latin pulchritudino "beauty," genitive pulchritudinis) + -ous.

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pulchritudinous

a. (context literary English) Having great physical beauty.

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pulchritudinous

adj. used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"

Usage examples of "pulchritudinous".

Insects of the day spend their brief existence in reiterated coition, lured by the smell of the inferiorly pulchritudinous fumale possessing extendified pudendal nerve in dorsal region.

A fine figure of a man such as yourself would look most pulchritudinous in a red robe.

Tawl had no idea what pulchritudinous meant, and he was quite sure he did not want to look it.

Silence, everyone, silence, while the pulchritudinous Sleepery proposes a toast.

They ordered their Lettuce Sandwiches and diluted Ceylon in a Restaurant where roguish Men-about-Town sat facing the Main Entrance to pipe the pulchritudinous Pippins.

Some, indeed, were both handsome and gifted, not the least pulchritudinous being one Rachel Good.

As a matter of fact, he was not surprised at all, for he knew his king, who had already robbed the gods of several pulchritudinous offerings.

But Shedemei had long since grown out of her adolescent jealousy of pulchritudinous girls.

The westering sun, streaming in through floor-to-ceiling windows, freshed the gilt of the smirking naked cupids and cast a rosy glow over the shapes of pulchritudinous pink goddesses.

At a table by the window, looking neither cherubic nor pulchritudinous, was the person I had expected to see.

The temporary night clerk was deep into his Penthouse magazine, eyes inched from the pulchritudinous photos as he absently fingered one of his terrific collection of zits.

He stopped, for his gaze had fallen upon a vision, pulchritudinous, ample and inviting.