selcouth

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  1. Rarely or little known; unusual; uncommon; strange; wonderful. I se ʒondyr a ful selcouth syght, Wher-of be-for no synge was seene. York Plays, p. 74. Now riden this folk and walken on fote To seche that seint in selcouthe londis. Piers Plowman (A), vi. 2. Yet nathemore his meaning she ared, But wondred much at his so selcouth case. Spenser, F. Q., IV. viii. 14.
  2. A wonder; a marvel. And sythen I loked vpon the see and so forth vpon the sterres, Many selcouthes I seygh ben nought lo seye nouthe. Piers Plowman (B), xi. 355. Sore longet the lede lagher to wende, Sum selkowth to se the sercle with-in. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 13506.

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  1. from Middle English selcouth, selkouth, selkowth, selcuth, selkuth, from Anglo-Saxon selcūth, seld-cūth, strange, wonderful, from seld, rarely, + cuth, known: see seld and couth. Cf. uncouth.
 

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