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chevelu

/ʃə.vly/

adjective/ʃə.vly/

hairy, long-haired

[T]rois insurgés les assistaient, trois gaillards chevelus, barbus et moustachus.[T]hree insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, jolly blades with beards and moustaches.

Related: chêne chevelu, coprin chevelu, crabier chevelu, cuir chevelu, pic chevelu

Inherited from Middle French chevelu, from Vulgar Latin *capillūtus. By surface analysis, cheveu (“hair”) + -u.