receding hairline
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4.1
- noun
- /rɪˈsiːdɪŋ ˈhɛrlaɪn/
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línea de cabello en retroceso
- Many men accept their receding hairline as a natural part of aging.
- man with a receding hairline
- slightly receding hairline
- got a receding hairline
Examples
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The birthday girl's hair has been pressed in blonde, cotton-candy wisps against her forehead to disguise a receding hairline.
Fiction book (1998) -
Bushy gray eyebrows encroached on his receding hairline, and his pristine white uniform was decorated with the insignia of the highest commander of the cavalry.
Fiction book (1999) -
We all know about the receding hairline.
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I don't have a receding hairline.
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Highlights in the front also help to camouflage a receding hairline.
Blog text (22) -
That's him. The photograph showed a dark-haired guy with a receding hairline.
Fiction book (1998) -
Don't let the folds of fat hanging over their belts or their receding hairlines fool you.
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It's a quite realistic portrait, with the lines and wrinkles, with his receding hairline and so on accentuated in this portrait.
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Her father wore suspenders and had his hair slicked back in a way that heightened his receding hairline.
Fiction book (1999) -
After nearly an hour, a young intern with a receding hairline and a brusque manner checks her father for bruises and cleans the cut.
Fiction book (1992)
How Bald
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'receding' (moving back / becoming less prominent) modifies 'hairline' (the front edge of hair growth), so a learner who knows both words can infer the hairline moving backward due to hair loss. This straightforward adjectival + noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, making it easily understood at B1 level.
Etymology
The noun receding hairline creates a clear image: the front edge of your hair, the hairline, is slowly receding or 'moving back' from the forehead. That is why it means 'the hair at the front is disappearing'.