Sunday, September 21, 2014

Word of the Day

pilar  \ PAHY-ler \, adjective;  
1.of, pertaining to, or covered with hair.

Quotes:
Their bodies are remarkably smooth, and devoid of pilar  hair…
-- James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind , 1826

Most of the men, and almost all the women, remove the eyelashes, and pilar  hair rarely appears to grow.
-- Sir Richard Francis Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa , 1860

Origin:
Pilar  came to English in the mid-1800s from the New Latin pilāris  meaning "of hair."

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