Word of the Day for Thursday, December 22, 2011
calvous \KAL-vuhs\, adjective:
Lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald.
The wit's voluminous neckerchief unraveled and slipped to the mold, and the spangled silver wig fell from the telltale calvous head.
-- D. M. Cornish, "Lamplighter"
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"
Calvous is derived from the Latin word calvus which meant simply “bald.”
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