English
Etymology
Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, beautiful.
Pronunciation
AHD|/pÅlʹkrÄ-tÅ«dʹ/
IPA|[�pʰ�ɫkɹ��tj�u�d]
Noun
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- Physical beauty.
Derived terms
pulchritudinous
Quotations
One participant recalls arriving at his Cocoa Beach motel on a Saturday evening with the Miss Universe contest on TV. To his wife's amazement, his interest in feminine pulchritude gave way to fatigue and he was asleep before the final selection.<br>�Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4 1
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