hoary-headed

American  

[hawr-ee-hed-id, hohr-] / ˈhɔr iˈhɛd ɪd, ˈhoʊr- /

adjective

1. having the gray or white hair of advanced age.

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Etymology

Origin of hoary-headed

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Off for Tasmania last week with 225 rubber balloons, large tanks of hydrogen and a short-wave radio receiving set sailed hoary-headed Robert Andrews Millikan, pious physicist of the California Institute of Technology.

From Time Magazine Archive

Midway through a discussion of the 1876 election with Eric Sevareid, Moyers had to apologize for suggesting that the hoary-headed commentator had been around that year: "Of course, you won't recall it personally, Eric."

From Time Magazine Archive

Carlyle was not feuding with Emerson when he called him "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," but most of the other literary figures in this book are�and their pejorative language is choice.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he could venture to encounter the hoary-headed eldership and substantial theology of the North, surely I may, without fear, address myself to the flimsy evangelism of the South.” 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

You talk to me as if I were a hoary-headed old sinner.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda