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Pulchritude   Listen
noun
Pulchritude  n.  
1.
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. "Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude."
2.
Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. "By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies."





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"Pulchritude" Quotes from Famous Books



... Willie steamed in, that beautiful young visitor to our shores, Lady Betty Bulkeley, managed to look like the Duke's daughter and Duke's sister she is, and so far as a mere man could tell, without the help of patent hair curlers, or other artificial aids to personal pulchritude. ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... Curly," said Enoch amiably. "I haven't got the reputation for pulchritude to live ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow


Words linked to "Pulchritude" :   beauty, voluptuousness


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