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baby hair en · NOUN
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(countable, dialectal, usually) A fine, wispy strand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's) hairline.
Medium size cornrows going back with a curl at the end of each braid. A silky, smooth, hairline, highlighted with soft black baby hairs.
2003, Darcel Turner, Dana Dances on Paper:
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(uncountable) The hair of a baby.
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(countable, uncountable) Any immature or fine strand of hair, or (uncountably) a collection of such hairs. (Compare baby tooth, baby fat.)
He has not made the mistake of giving us a smaller horse, but shows us all the coltish attributes, the curling baby hair on the flanks, the slim gawky legs, and above all the concave face and[…]
1931, Lida Louise Fleitmann, The Horse in Art: From Primitive Times to the Present:You shed your hair, too. Old hairs fall out nearly every day, and new baby hairs grow in their places .
1919, Eleanor Atkinson, The how and why Library:
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