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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 12, 2009 pulchritude \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." -- Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy 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. -- Mitchell Owens, "A Body of Work That's Not Just a Body", New York Times, January 11, 1995 Where Linda has her infectious charm, Polly has only her empty pulchritude. -- Hannah Betts, "Sixty years on, and it's still a gel thing", Times (London), February 3, 2001 Pulchritude comes from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, "beautiful." The adjective form is pulchritudinous. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for pulchritude Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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