Hamlet vocabulary

the doctor, as if to hear the better, had taken off his powdered wig and sat there looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)

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His beard was as white as snow,

All flaxen was his poll

WIlliam Shakespeare. Hamlet.

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A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace (descende!), clutching a monstrance, basiliskeyed. Get down, baldpoll!

James Joyce. Ulysses