hirsute

Definition

Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.

Etymology

From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).

Example Sentences

• "A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him."
• "[…] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots."
• "Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy, And had retained his boyish look beyond The usual hirsute seasons which destroy, With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond Parisian aspect […]"

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