longbeard
nounEtymology From long + beard.
1
A man with a long beard.
2
Poetic Synonym of greybeard (“an old man”).
3
Synonym of greybeard (“experienced long-time member of a group”).
- For those who have never navigated “Fairways,” as some longbeards call the original store — there are satellites in Harlem and Brooklyn and on Long Island, with another planned for New Jersey — it is a low-ceilinged warren under pitiless fluorescents.2009 January 31, Glenn Collins, “A Slow New York Passage, Up to Organic Food”, in New York Times:
4
Synonym of greybeard (“a bellarmine”).