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grey-headed

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adj.1.same as gray-headed.
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Adj.1.grey-headed - showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
grey-haired, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired, gray-haired, gray-headed, 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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A carriage with arms on its panels had stopped at the inn, and as a smart footman opened the door, a fine grey-headed military-looking man stepped out and strode hurriedly up the inn steps.
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When this topic flagged, he turned with a smile to the grey-headed gentleman, and asked if he could sing.
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The father--he is called Gorshkov--is a little grey-headed tchinovnik who, seven years ago, was dismissed from public service, and now walks about in a coat so dirty and ragged that it hurts one to see it.
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