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Glatze, feminine, from the equivalent Middle High German glatz, ‘bald pate, bald spot, surface of the head’; Gothic *glatta- for pre-Teutonic ghladhno, allied to glatt (pre-Teutonic ghladho-); hence Glätte is literally ‘smooth spot.’