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[ adjective ] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair

Examples

"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge "nodded his hoary head"

Related terms

old

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[ adjective ] showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair

Examples

"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge "nodded his hoary head"

Used in print

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

Looking_back I saw a gray-haired man getting_out of his halted car and trying to read our license_number .

Related terms

old

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