The word is entirely new to FLG.
He came across it when he saw this article in Le Monde and then began searching for follow-up info on English language websites and found this write up:
It cited one of her Chinese male acquaintances as describing her as “anything but pulchritudinous.”
It strikes FLG as one of those random, archaic words that only people who have formally studied English as a second language would use. (Or extreme pedants.)
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The word was once very commonly used -- mostly as "pulchritude." (One heard it in the repressed Fifties all the time.)
It went away once we began to live in a world where nothing was ever held back.
I've used the word. My pedantry may be extreme, though. The word is a cognate for the Latin word pulchra, so it's probably more common among people who have studied Latin.
I use it because it's fun. Also, because my parents were adults in the 1950s.
Here's a quote of the day for you:
“It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion,” Prince told the Guardian. “There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.”
Mrs. P
Another good word, not wholly unrelated, is callipygian.
"One of her male acquaintances described her as 'anything but callipygian.'"
Alpheus:
Knew that word.
Young people are so fricking helpless:
Non-Pulchritudinous:
Audrey Hepburn
Catherine Deneuve
Bibi Anderrson
Pulchritudinous:
Bridgette Bardot
Liv Ullmann
Jane Fonda
Questions?
I question your canon.
Chacun à son goût.
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