Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Baldness; calvities.
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- noun uncountable
Baldness . - noun An area of skin that has become bald.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nay, oftentimes calvity has to be simulated, and fictitious foreheads of canvas assumed.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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Heads in an iron-gray or partially bald state -- varying from the first slight thinning of the locks to the time when they come to be combed over with a kind of "cat's cradle" or trellis-work look, to veil absolute calvity -- are now represented by the actors with a completeness of a most artistic kind.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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Teutonically sentimental tirades of Rodolphe and to his premature calvity, he called him the bald forget-me-not.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841
qms commented on the word calvity
His scalp has been twice overhauled
But Donald insists he’s not bald.
If such simple calvity
Were solely his malady
The world would be far less appalled.
March 21, 2018