crinosity
English
Noun
crinosity (usually uncountable, plural crinosities)
- hairiness
- 1857, Theodore Edward Hook, Precepts and Practice, page 86:
- […] 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.