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Selcouth Sel Kooth Adjective Strange Unusual Marvelous Middle English

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adjective
Strange; unusual; marvelous.

[From Middle English, from Old English seldcuth, from seldan (seldom) + cuth (known), from cunnan (to know).]

"Then forth they rushed: by Leader's tide, A selcouth sight they see." - Walter Scott (1771-1832); Thomas the Rhymer.

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