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pulchritudes

pulchritudes is the plural of pulchritude.

Meaning of pulchritude

Noun

pulchritude (usually uncountable, plural pulchritudes)

  1. (usually) Physical beauty.
    • 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.1978, Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty, Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA Special Publication 4204, 1978, ch. 4...

Questions about pulchritudes

What is pulchritudes the plural of?
Pulchritudes is the plural of pulchritude.

Words near pulchritudes in the dictionary

  1. pulchrified
  2. pulchrifies
  3. pulchrify
  4. pulchrifying
  5. pulchritude
  6. pulchritudes
  7. pulchritudinous
  8. pulchritudinously
  9. pulchronomics
  10. pulchrous
  11. puldron

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