calvity

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Definition of calvity in English English dictionary

Baldness

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 .

Etymology

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