Meaning of bald spot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An area on the head which, due to hair loss, has little or no hair.
2. An area where a covering layer is absent; for example, a place where there is a break in the forest covering an area, or where snow has melted.

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Examples

“from the forest, there lay⟳ before him, over an enormous extent of space, an even, velvety cover⟳ of green, without a single bald spot or washout, only here and there, in the swales, spotted with remnants of melting snow⟳. He was not angered by the sight of a peasant horse and yearling colt, which were trampling his sprouting fields (he ordered a peasant whom he met to drive⟳ them off), [...]”

“He joins Fagre and Erich at the edge of the rock rib where it meets the ice and snow⟳. They uncoil the rope and tie bowlines to clip into their harnesses. The two men look⟳ to Fagre for instructions. Dan Fagre just points, unusual for a loquacious man. Ahead, about two hundred yards into the glacier, toward the headwall, is a bald spot. The snow⟳ has melted away or been scoured by the wind to reveal⟳ a stretch⟳ of disturbed ice and crevasses about the size of a football field.”

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