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pulchritudinous adj : used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"

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Latin pulchritudo (stem pulchritudin-) “pulchritude” + -ous.

1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0312863551&id=BekUbUYszIEC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=ZvuCF54ZL1_TGu3t7yhCfG16Vac

“The first example in each series,” Mike offered, “would be, on the basis of my associational analyses of such data, of such pulchritudinous value as to please any healthy, mature human male.”
1994, Orson Scott Card, The Ships of Earth http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0812532635&id=7gfXxsbBlMUC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=0rRZFt_qlJjfSJjGn3wFt2fS2d4

But Shedemei had long since grown out of her adolescent jealousy of pulchritudinous girls.
1998, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Flamingo Fedora http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0812565355&id=lU8wPXJ3OiMC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=pulchritudinous&sig=BBtkRVAYY69odrH7zFc7qi0qwus

“I had standing instructions to let any pulchritudinous females into Mr. Cooke’s dressing room,” Mike admitted.
“Pulchritudinous? He really said that?”
“No, I said that.”