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Hirsute   /hərsˈut/   Listen
adjective
Hirsute  adj.  
1.
Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
2.
Rough and coarse; boorish. (R.) "Cynical and hirsute in his behavior."
3.
(Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
4.
(Zool.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.





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"Hirsute" Quotes from Famous Books



... inoffensive butter, I proceed to make the best of circumstances. The old khan-jee proves himself a thoughtful, considerate landlord, for as I eat he busies himself picking the most glaringly conspicuous hairs out of my butter with the point of his dagger. One is usually somewhat squeamish regarding hirsute butter, but all such little refinements of civilized life as hairless butter or strained milk have to be winked at to a greater or less extent in Asiatic travelling, especially when depending solely on what happens to turn up from one meal to another. The ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... toss their tresses together without any attention to the natural inclination of the individual strands or fibres. They comb their hair "against the grain." Those who do so never have beautifully and smoothly arranged coiffures. Each little hirsute filament has a rebellious tendency to go in the direction nature intended it should, and refuses to "stay where it is put," giving the head in consequence, an unkempt and what is termed an "unladylike" appearance. The criss-cross effect resulting from combing and arranging the hair ...
— What Dress Makes of Us • Dorothy Quigley
... idiotic longing to take a measuring rule and find out the exact distance from "tip to tip." Another waggish picture is made by the snub-nosed girl with her hair arranged a la Madonna. These long hirsute lamberquins on either side of her face make the poor little nose appear even smaller, like unto a wee dab of putty ...
— The Woman Beautiful - or, The Art of Beauty Culture • Helen Follett Stevans
... that she could do no better than to put her trust in a man of substance, in the prime of life, who knew his way about. But for the excited trembling of his voice, and the extraordinary way in which his eyes seemed to be starting out of his crimson, hirsute countenance, such speeches had every character of calm, unselfish advice—which, after the manner of lovers, passed easily into sanguine plans ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad
... many acquaintances, Whiskers, by reason of his hirsute peculiarity, became known throughout the building, from the business office on the ground floor to the composing-room on the top. When he went into the latter one day and passed down the long aisle between the long row of cases and type-setting machines, with a corrected ...
— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens


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