baby hair

A fine, wispy strand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's) hairline.

Noun

  1. A fine, wispy strand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's) hairline.

    dialect, usually countable

    • 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
  2. The hair of a baby.

    uncountable

  3. Any immature or fine strand of hair, or (uncountably) a collection of such hairs. (Compare baby tooth, baby fat.)

    countable, uncountable

    • 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
    • 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

Forms

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