| \puhl-kri-TOOD-n-uhs, -TYOOD-\ | adjective
1. physically beautiful; comely. | | Quotes | Jazz buffs with glorious vocabularies wrote long and often boring tributes to the pulchritudinous Lady Day, her phrasing and incredibly intricate harmonics.
-- Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman, 1981 | | Origin | | Pulchritudinous is built on the Latin word for "beautiful," pulcher. The noun pulchritude entered English in the mid-1400s; pulchritudinous did not gain traction in the US until the late 1800s. | |
