hoary-headed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hoary-headed
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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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
A hoary-headed man might have seen the whole of their imperial sway.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
The "hoary-headed swain" of course could not read.
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
That hoary-headed Silenus, whom you saw, was once in the stables here; so was his son after him, in my time; and the old man's sister was my grandmother's maid.
From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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