balden

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

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verb

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"Now Champou's partner was the Court barber, and by the use of a peculiar hair oil which the two of them had concocted, they soon managed to balden the pates of all the male aristocracy of the place."
"At 65 years old, the top of his head had baldened, but gray patches surrounded his ears."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰḗlH-o-m Proto-Germanic *bēlą Proto-West Germanic *bāl Old English bæl? Middle English balled English bald English -en English balden From bald + -en.

baldens (present, singular) baldening (participle, present) baldened (participle, past) baldened (past)

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