baby hair

Noun

baby hair (countable and uncountable, plural baby hairs)

1. (countable, dialectal, usually) A fine, wispy strand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's) hairline.
   • Medium size cornrows going back with a curl at the end of each braid. A silky, smooth, hairline, highlighted with soft black baby hairs.2003, Darcel Turner, Dana Dances on Paper
2. (uncountable) The hair of a baby.
3. Any immature or fine strand of hair, or (uncountably) a collection of such hairs. (Compare baby tooth, baby fat.)
   • You shed your hair, too. Old hairs fall out nearly every day, and new baby hairs grow in their places .1919, Eleanor Atkinson, The how and why Library
   • He has not made the mistake of giving us a smaller horse, but shows us all the coltish attributes, the curling baby hair on the flanks, the slim gawky legs, and above all the concave face and[…]1931, Lida Louise Fleitmann, The Horse in Art: From Primitive Times to the Present