white-haired
adjEtymology 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”).
1
Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.
- Near-synonyms: grizzly, silver-haired; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired
- The white-haired king took the tidings with calm, believing that he must have in some fashion broken a law without knowing.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
- Related terms
- grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired