Calvous Tyranny Kal Vuhs Adjective Lacking Hair Head Bald

calvous \KAL-vuhs\

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