Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
gray-headed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
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Examples
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As well as putting the two of them back in touch with each other, Philippa told Julie, her recent forays into Facebook and Friends-reunited.com had revealed that at least fifty percent of their contemporaries were now unabashedly grey-headed and bespectacled.
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You've even got a few grey-headed, white guys like me.
Bill Clinton: “You Haven’t Shut My Demographic Out Yet” - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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Before the proceedings actually got underway, Marvin Rotrand, a member of the Montreal's civic government, circulated a petition among the paltry, grey-headed crowd a number of young people were there, but only because they were buddies of Foran's daughter, who attends a local university.
Waiting for "Barney" (Mordecai Richler's version) Beverly Akerman 2010
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"A lawyer, is he not, grey-headed, and walks with a limp?"
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Los Katíos supports a number of species which are characteristic of Central America and are only found in this part of South America such as the mouse Heteromys desmarestianus and grey-headed chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps.
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The pools are a haven for Egyptian plover Pluvianus aegyptius and grey-headed kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala, whilst tree, shrub and savanna species include bustard Eupodotis senegalensis, stone partridge Ptilopachus petrosus and laughing dove Streptopelia senegalensis.
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Species abundant around villages include grey-headed sparrow Passer griseus and hooded vulture Necrosytres monachus.
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One grey-headed old gentleman came and abused the South-Western Company bitterly to my brother.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Among the many which may be readily seen by the visitor are no less than nine species of kingfisher, including brown-winged and stork-billed kingfishers, Pelargopsis amauropterus (NT) and P. capensis, respectively; the magnificent white-bellied sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster which, at a density of one individual per 53.1 kilometers (km) of waterways, is quite common; also the much rarer grey-headed fish eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus (NT), Pallas's fish-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus and several other raptors.
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Near the Rome Termini, my wife and I had a lovely dinner at a family-style restaurant that was almost bursting with grey-headed tourists.
Brent Green: Baby Boomers: 1969 - Europe on 5 Dollars a Day; 2009 - Europe on 500 Dollars a Day 2009
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