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grizzled

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griz·zled  (grzld)
adj.
1. Partly gray or streaked with gray: a grizzled beard.
2. Having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray.

grizzled [ˈgrɪzəld]
adj
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) having grey or partly grey hair
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.grizzled - having dark hairs mixed with grey or white
brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; "a brunette beauty"

grizzled
adjective grey, greying, grey-haired, grizzly, hoary, grey-headed an old man with grey, grizzled hair a grizzled old warrior
Translations
grizzled [ˈgrɪzld] ADJ [hair] → entrecano
grizzled [ˈgrɪzəld] adj (= grey) [person] → grisonnant(e); [hair, beard] → grisonnant(e)
grizzled
adj persongrauhaarig; hair, beard (= grey)grau; (= streaked with grey)grau meliert
grizzled [ˈgrɪzld] adj (hair) → brizzolato/a
grizzled [ˈgrɪzld] adj (hair) → brizzolato/a


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Here the Distressed One and the other duennas raised the veils with which they were covered, and disclosed countenances all bristling with beards, some red, some black, some white, and some grizzled, at which spectacle the duke and duchess made a show of being filled with wonder.
On the beach, that night at Tulagi, vainly wondering what had become of the whaleboat, Michael had met the squat, thick, hair- grizzled ship's steward.
She wondered as she regarded some of the grizzled women in the room, mere mechanical contrivances sewing seams and grinding out, with heads bended over their work, tales of imagined or real girlhood happiness, past drunks, the baby at home, and unpaid wages.
 
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