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selcouth

[ sel-kooth ]

adjective

, Archaic.
  1. strange; uncommon.


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Other Words From

  • selcouthly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of selcouth1

before 900; Middle English selcouth, Old English seldcūth, equivalent to seld ( an ) seldom + cūth couth 2
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Example Sentences

A strange day and a selcouth sight for auld een.

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.

A selcouth thing be tha was done.

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