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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I can’t believe this one isn’t in the database or already posted but I’ve checked – honest I have, jorkel – and there was no trace. There are hundreds of hits but almost all lead to peculiar pornographic sites; either they are all written by the same person or the hairsute/hairsuit variants are insisted upon at Pornography College and their students are wholly biddable. The following examples, of course, feature nothing offensive…
Wuhan to Tibet | Lhasa, China Travel Blog… if they could touch the hairs on my arms (most chinese are not hairsute). ... On returning to my seat I told Jane about my ‘encounter’ and she laughed …
www.travelpod.com/cgi-bin/guest.pl?tweb … D=11146… – 81k
AQA thinks that the average woman’s leg would have 40000 to 50000 hairs, depending on how hairsute she is. Q: Do bees have knees ? ...
indianfriendfinder.com/blog/prince609/2006-10-11/ – 42k
Definition of a handlebar moustache : ” A hairsuit appendage to the upper lip with claspable extremeties . ” ... EDIT : Oooh TomcaT’s here , he ’ ll fix it …
legendsthegame.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1721 – 103k –
and his whole body was like a hairy garment . . . ” Damn , that could refer to my mate Andy , he’s pretty hairsuit ! ! PapaJimH Younger than Fire …
p200.ezboard.com/fspocksbeardfrm5.showMessage?topicID=632.topic – 26k
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I like this one a lot and decided to go looking for other examples. My favorite non-pornographic occurrences are from the patent statement for a product called an “Evaporative non-dripping sweat band” (United States Patent 4521922). Part of what I like about them is the jawdroppingly horrible prose in which they’re couched:
The sweat band of claim 1 wherein said gripping means comprises a strip with hook like projections secured at one loose end and a strip with hairsute material secured at the other loose end of said body.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4521922.html
The sweat band of claim 7 wherein said strips with hook-like projections and hairsute material are sewn to the loose ends of said sweat band after said cloth cover is turned exteriorly of said batting material.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4521922.html
In order to understand the first example, you have to realize that “means” is being used as a noun. In both these instances, “hairsute” seems to mean “hair-like” rather than “hairy.”
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