Today I learned that pulchritudinous doesn't mean what I thought it meant. I thought it was something that was exceptionally devious or wicked.
Don't expect me to use it in a story except as a joke.
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i once went down a similar rabbithole on "whited sepulchre" and came away... remembering that i'd wasted time on this but not really gaining much clarity
i now see that my failure to comprehend is tied to what you went into this with
@EveHasWords I first heard "pulchritude" in a song by Paul McCartney. (This is largely irrelevant to your post, but for some reason I feel compelled to mention it.)
