Citations:hirsute
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English citations of hirsute
- 1794, Richard Joseph Sullivan, A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps[1]:
- Trees shed their leaves; birds their feathers; and hirsute animals, their hair.
- 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 25, in Catch 22, page 287:
- “I give you my word”, the chaplain pleaded, but it was too late, for the homely hirsute specter had already vanished, dissolving so expertly inside the blooming, dappled, fragmented malformations of leaves, light and shadows that the chaplain was already doubting that he had ever been there.
- 2007, Dov M Gabbay & John Woods, The Many Valued and Nonmonotonic Turn in Logic[2]:
- So a man with ten thousand hairs on his head is bald, yet we rightly feel that such men are hirsute, i.e. not bald.