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callow (KAL-oh) - adj., (obs.) bald, hairless; (rare/arch.) (of a bird) featherless, unfledged; (rare) (of any animal) immature, juvenile; (of a person) (by extension) lacking maturity or experience.
Bald is the original sense of Old English calu, which as Middle English calwe became applied to downy birds in the 15th century. The people sense, which is the only sense most people know today, arrived soon after.
---L.
Bald is the original sense of Old English calu, which as Middle English calwe became applied to downy birds in the 15th century. The people sense, which is the only sense most people know today, arrived soon after.
---L.
