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cilicious

cilicious adjective: made, or consisting, of hair.

Adjective

cilicious (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Made, or consisting, of hair.
    • a cilicious or sackcloth habit1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of cilicious

From Latin cilicium (“a covering, originally made of Cilician goat hair”), from Cilicious (“Cilician”), from Cilicia (“a province of Asia Minor”).

Questions about cilicious

What does cilicious mean?
Cilicious means made, or consisting, of hair.
What part of speech is cilicious?
Cilicious is an adjective.

Words near cilicious in the dictionary

  1. Cilician
  2. Cilician Armenia
  3. Cilician Armenian
  4. Cilician Gates
  5. Cilicians
  6. cilicious
  7. ciliferous
  8. ciliform
  9. ciliiform
  10. Cilincing
  11. cilio-

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