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English
Etymology
From Latin fōrmōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
formous (comparative more formous, superlative most formous)
- (rare) fair; beautiful.
1885, Richard F Burton, transl. and editor, “Tale of Núr al-Dín Alí and His Son Badr al-Dín Hasan”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Shammar edition, volume I, : Burton Club , →OCLC, page 212:She is the daughter of the Wazir Shams al-Din and she is a model of beauty and loveliness, of fairest favour and formous form, and dight with symmetry and perfect grace.