うつくしい
beautiful
A sheep drawn big, which was somebody's old idea of a fine thing. Ooh うつ, could くし you look at that しい. You stop dead in front of the picture and hold up everyone behind you: うつくしい.
More written and more formal than きれい. きれい also covers clean and tidy; this one does not.
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