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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