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white-haired

adj

Etymology

From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

  1. inherited from white-heered

Definitions

  1. Having white hair

    Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.

    • Near-synonyms: grizzly, silver-haired; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired
    • The white-haired king took the tidings with calm, believing that he must have in some fashion broken a law without knowing.

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