Hirsute

Among the familiar things that he would encounter would be creatures recognizably human yet in his view grotesque. While he himself laboured under the weight of his own body, these giants would be easily striding. He would consider them very sturdy, often thick-set, folk, but he would be compelled to allow them grace of movement and even beauty of proportion. The longer he stayed with them the more beauty he would see in them, and the less complacently would he regard his own type. Some of these fantastic men and women he would find covered with fur, hirsute, or mole-velvet, revealing the underlying muscles. Others would display brown, yellow or ruddy skin, and yet others a translucent ash-green, warmed by the under-flowing blood. As a species, though we are all human, we are extremely variable in body and mind, so variable that superficially we seem to be not one species but many.

A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him.

[…] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.

Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy, And had retained his boyish look beyond The usual hirsute seasons which destroy, With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond Parisian aspect […]

At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.

Depilatories were used for all hirsute parts of the body.

Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]

Virchow is mentioned as having described the “Russian hairy men” the “hirsutes,” who, although their bodies were covered with a thick growth of hair were nevertheless almost entirely devoid of teeth.

Where’s the sockless hirsutes from the grasshopper-bitten wilds of Kansas?

THE hairy fibrous or hirsute begonias (either term is correct, though the latter is preferred) are not so well known as those already discussed, but they are just as lovely. Their flowering season is mainly in fall and winter when most other plants have finished blooming. They get their name from the hairs on the outside of the flower petals. Leaves and stems may be quite smooth, or moderately to heavily covered with hairs. These hirsutes come in varying heights, from a foot for the dwarf varieties, to well over six feet for the larger ones.