white-haired
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white-haired
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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 whitehaired
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Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
Near-synonyms: grizzly, silver-haired; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired
Similar: hoary, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill
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adj having white hair
| Español | peliblanco |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 백발(白髪)의 baekbar-ui |
| 日本語 | 白髪の shiraga no |
| Português | grisalho, cão |
| Français | chenu |
| Deutsch | weißhaarig |
| العربية | أَشْيَب ʔašyab |
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