bald cap

noun

: a tight-fitting cap that resembles bald skin and is worn (as by an actor) to create the appearance of baldness

Some friends assumed his bald head was a really good bald cap …

—Karen Barrow, New York Times, 6 July 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

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