venusty

English

Etymology

From Latin venustas. Compare also Middle French vénusté.

Noun

venusty (uncountable)

1. (rare) Elegance; physical beauty.
   • 1559, William Barker, transl., The Nobility of Women:

     Nature hathe […] geven hym a bewtye – it is called maiestye, or venustie […] – wch passethe all other bewtye.

   • 1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato:

     To him Divine Providence presents the pure, tralucid tenerity of Madonnina Marcia Figlidelre, the caesarial auricolored sinuose venusty of Don Eros Ardeati […] .

   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 67:

     She was not really pretty, but she had all the bloom and venusty of youth, with those hazel eyes which seem almost golden when they take the light under dark lashes.