The Word of the Day for August 30 is:

pulchritude   \PUHL-kruh-tood\   noun
     : physical comeliness

Example sentence:
     "You must not hold my pulchritude against me, for I surely did not 
     ask for it, and even if I had, beauty is neither a crime nor sign of 
     doltishness*," declared Laura.

Did you know?
     If John Keats was right when he wrote that "a thing of beauty is 
     a joy forever," then "pulchritude" should bring bliss for many years to come. 
     That word has already served English handsomely for centuries; it has been 
     used since the 1400s. It's a descendant of the Latin adjective "pulcher," 
     which means "beautiful." "Pulcher" hasn't exactly been a wellspring of English 
     terms, but it did give us both "pulchritude" and "pulchritudinous," an adjective 
     meaning "attractive" or "beautiful." The verb "pulchrify" (a synonym of "beautify"), 
     the noun "pulchritudeness" (same meaning as "pulchritude"), 
     and the adjective "pulchrous" (meaning "fair or beautiful") are other "pulcher" 
     offspring, but those terms have proved that, in at least some linguistic 
     cases, beauty is fleeting.


* synonyms for "doltish" are. foolish, idiotic, simple, blockish, asinine, dull and a few more.