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gray-headed

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Adj.1.gray-headed - showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired, gray-haired, grey, gray
old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"


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On the miserable bed lay a gray-headed old man of gigantic stature, with nothing on him but a ragged shirt and a pair of patched, filthy trousers.
Miss or Mrs.? by Collins, Wilkie View in context
"If only Countess Marya Borissovna were Minister of War, and Princess Vatkovskaya were Commander-in-Chief," said a gray-headed, little old man in a gold-embroidered uniform, addressing a tall, handsome maid of honor who had questioned him about the new appointments.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
the gray-headed men stammered over the long, strange words, like a little child in his first attempts to read.
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