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White-haired

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age. not-comparable

    "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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  1. 1
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  2. 2
    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet

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”).

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