white-haired

See also: whitehaired

English

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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”).

Adjective

white-haired (not comparable)

  1. Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
    Synonyms: hoary, see also Thesaurus:elderly
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
      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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