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Definition of Baldish
1. somewhat bald [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baldish
Literary usage of Baldish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"Grant's hair seems to be rather thin on the forehead, and I should say, if closely
pressed, that he was—baldish. Over his ears it grows, however, ..."
2. Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 by James Anthony Froude (1882)
"... only it was twice as large); a tall, broad, thin man, with wrinkled face,
baldish head, and large mild melancholy dreamy blue eyes under bushy brows. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Throughout the day the young one had looked at the baldish head of the older one,
as he bared it with an absurd touch of ceremony at kitchen doors, ..."
4. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"A dark, grizzled, baldish man, with high, steep forehead, long, haggard, leathern
visage, sweeping beard, and 1 Bor, iv. 12. Coloma, viii. ..."
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