Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Word for Today
Pulchritudinous meaning physically beautiful
Richard Burton used it to describe his first impression of Elizabeth Taylor: "... the most astonishingly self-contained, pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen."
Sources:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/top-10-unusually-long-words-vol-2
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