selcouth
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- selcouthly adverb
Etymology
Origin of selcouth
before 900; Middle English selcouth, Old English seldcūth, equivalent to seld ( an ) seldom + cūth couth 2
Example Sentences
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A strange day and a selcouth sight for auld een.
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From among them one could gather out a whole menagerie of the 'selcouth' beasts and birds and creeping things that have been banished from solid earth into the limbo of Fa�ry and Romance.
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A selcouth thing be tha was done.
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