bald-domed

adjective

: having a bald head : bald sense 1a

Eventually, his tall, bald-domed, saturnine appearance and humorously distinctive, potentially withering vocal inflections became fixtures of the English theater and cinema.

—Gary Arnold, Washington Times, 14 June 2007

Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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