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Etymology
Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his novel Ulysses. From Anglo-Norman pelure (“pelt, fur, animal skin”) + -ious.[1]
Adjective
pelurious (comparative more pelurious, superlative most pelurious)
- (rare) Hairy.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 282:[…] York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and pumets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.
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