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==English== |
==English== |
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|image1=Yul Brynner Anna and the King television 1972.JPG |
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|caption1=A baldpate (person) with a baldpate. |
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|image2=AnasAmericanaMaleClarkParkCA.JPG |
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|caption2=A baldpate (bird) |
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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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{{compound|bald|pate}} |
From {{compound|en|bald|pate}}. |
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===Noun=== |
===Noun=== |
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# A [[bald]]-headed person. |
# A [[bald]]-headed person. |
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|year=c. 1603–1604 |
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|author=w:William Shakespeare |
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|title=w:Measure for Measure |
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|section=act 5, scene 1 |
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|line=324 |
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|passage=Come hither, goodman '''baldpate'''. |
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#* {{quote-web |
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|en |
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|date=2016-11-07 |
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|title=Crown Casino's Chinese middle-man to VIP high rollers was among arrests |
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|work=stuff.co.nz |
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|author=Philip Wen |
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|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/86161230/Crown-Casinos-Chinese-middle-man-to-VIP-high-rollers-was-among-arrests |
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|passage=A '''baldpate''' with an often aloof demeanour, Tian is one of Crown's most lucrative private junket operators, effectively a middleman who recommends wealthy Chinese high rollers in return for a commission. |
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# A bald head. |
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#* {{quote-journal |
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|date=2013-09-16 |
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|author=Natasha Vargas-Cooper |
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|title=What If the Best Remedy for a Broken Family Is No Family at All? |
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|journal=Pacific Standard |
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|url=https://psmag.com/education/best-remedy-broken-family-family-65379 |
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|passage=Peri is in his 70s and has a thick silver mustache and a '''baldpate''' covered by a yarmulke. |
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#* {{quote-journal |
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|date=2015-08-19 |
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|title=Bird-shooting season opens this weekend |
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|journal=Jamaica Observer |
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|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/environment/Bird-shooting-season-opens-this-weekend_19224230 |
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|passage=The '''Baldpate''' and White-winged Dove are two of the four game birds that can be hunted during the 2015 bird-shooting season. |
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|accessdate=26 July 2017 |
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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920122520/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/environment/Bird-shooting-season-opens-this-weekend_19224230 |
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|archivedate=20 September 2015 |
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====Synonyms==== |
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{{Webster 1913}} |
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* {{sense|bald person}} {{seeSynonyms|en|bald person|sense=1}} |
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* {{sense|bald head}} {{l|en|chrome dome}} |
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* {{sense|bird}} {{l|en|American wigeon}}, {{taxfmt|Anas americana|species}}, {{l|en|zuisin}} |
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====Translations==== |
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[[sv:baldpate]] |
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{{trans-see|bald-headed person|baldy}} |
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[[ta:baldpate]] |
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[[zh:baldpate]] |
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{{C|en|Dabbling ducks}} |
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Latest revision as of 12:20, 27 September 2024
English
[edit]
A baldpate (person) with a baldpate.
A baldpate (bird)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]baldpate (plural baldpates)
- A bald-headed person.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 5, scene 1, line 324:
- Come hither, goodman baldpate.
- 2016 November 7, Philip Wen, “Crown Casino's Chinese middle-man to VIP high rollers was among arrests”, in stuff.co.nz[1]:
- A baldpate with an often aloof demeanour, Tian is one of Crown's most lucrative private junket operators, effectively a middleman who recommends wealthy Chinese high rollers in return for a commission.
- A bald head.
- 2013 September 16, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, “What If the Best Remedy for a Broken Family Is No Family at All?”, in Pacific Standard[2]:
- Peri is in his 70s and has a thick silver mustache and a baldpate covered by a yarmulke.
- A bird, the American wigeon (Anas americana).
- 2015 August 19, “Bird-shooting season opens this weekend”, in Jamaica Observer[3], archived from the original on 20 September 2015:
- The Baldpate and White-winged Dove are two of the four game birds that can be hunted during the 2015 bird-shooting season.
Synonyms
[edit]- (bald person): See Thesaurus:bald person
- (bald head): chrome dome
- (bird): American wigeon, Anas americana, zuisin
Translations
[edit]bald-headed person — see baldy
