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calvity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkælvɪti/

Etymology

From Latin calvitium (“baldness”), from calvus (“bald”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Baldness.
2. (countable, uncountable) An area of skin that has become bald.
   • He wore his own hair – what there was left of it: short tight curls round a shining calvity, though he was in his thirties, no more – and he looked like one of the fatter, more jovial Roman emperors […]. 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:

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