Aug 13, 2023
Lost Word Of The Day (60)
Canities - the greyness or whiteness of #hair #lostwords #obscurewords #logophilia
One of the consequences of Covid lockdowns was people’s willingness to allow their hair to assume its natural colour. As a result, there seems to be a greater abundance of canities around, a medical term from the early 19th century meaning the whiteness or greyness of hair. It was derived from the Latin adjective in its masculine form, canus, which meant white, grey or hoary, and spawned the…
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