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selcouth

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Adj — (archaic) Unfamiliar and amazing; strikingly rare or strange.

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Came into English via Middle English selcouth, from Old English selcūþ, seldcūþ (“unusual, unwonted, little known, unfamiliar, novel, rare”), made up of seld- (“rarely”) and cūþ (“known”); it is equivalent to seld + couth.

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