Meanings
plural crinosities
- uncountableusuallyhairiness
[…] and as the dean immediately proceeded, scissors in hand, to begin the desired excision, the Bishop, alarmed for the fate of his beautiful crinosity, represented that Easter was too good a feast to be sullied by such an operation.
1857, Theodore Edward Hook, Precepts and Practice, page 86
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