This flashcard defines "calvous" as an adjective meaning lacking hair on the head or bald.
This flashcard defines "calvous" as an adjective meaning lacking hair on the head or bald.
Back | calvous \KAL-vuhs\ |
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Front | adjective Lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald. [Calvous is derived from the New Latin word calvus meaning “bald.”] Admittedly most old, bloated, calvous Germans could double for me, and even if he hadn't been doppelganger material, with the beard I had started growing and the two black eyes, you'd need x-rays to spot the difference. - Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, 1994 All history proves it: the tyranny of the clergy was bad enough: but it was as nothing in comparison with the sordid tyranny of the Press which we now complacently tolerate. Calumny culminated with a concoction of the calvous Crowe's. - Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh, 1904 |
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