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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 12, 2009pulchritude \PUL-kruh-tood; -tyood\, noun: That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. No stranger aftermath developed after the war, Thorek recalled, "than the sudden hope, surging through feminine -- and sometimes masculine -- hearts, that where nature had been niggardly in her gifts of pulchritude, the knife of the surgeon could remedy the lack." While other symbols of postwar pulchritude have gone into seclusion, become anti-vivisectionists or begun hawking designer eyeglasses, Gina Lollobrigida continues to tend her image with a fully sequined sense of responsibility to the legend. Where Linda has her infectious charm, Polly has only her empty pulchritude. Pulchritude comes from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, "beautiful." The adjective form is pulchritudinous. | |||||||||
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