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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