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baby hair

American  
[bay-bee hair] / ˈbeɪ bi ˈhɛər /

noun

plural

baby hairs
  1. the hair on the head of a human infant.

  2. Often baby hairs, the short, fine hair that grows along a person's hairline, which some people style with hair products so that it lies flat in patterns on the forehead or scalp.

  3. lanugo.


Example Sentences

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Over the years, baby hair has taken center stage as a playground for swirling and adorning the hairline.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Hey, you know, it’s not like your baby hair.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

Four months postpartum my whole hairline fell out, and now I have a bunch of cowlicks from all the baby hair growing in.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020

I had a baby hair mustache and I used my mom’s eyeliner to make it darker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2020

Not the kind of baby hair her grandmother had soaped and played with and remembered for forty years.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison