hoary-headed

[ hawr-ee-hed-id, hohr- ]

adjective

1. having the gray or white hair of advanced age.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoary-headed¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

The first thing, therefore, that a lad has to do when he goes to school is to shout out in all the various tones of the gamut the names of these ancient, hoary-headed symbols, and at the same time to impress upon his memory the picture of each one, with its dots and curves and minute up and down strokes, that it shall be a living picture that his mind can call up at any moment that he hears its name pronounced.

From Project Gutenberg

Pity the unhappy, said a devout, venerable, hoary-headed man, meekly holding up a box, begirt with iron, in his withered hands——I beg for the unfortunate—good my Lady, ’tis for a prison—for an hospital—’tis for an old man—a poor man undone by shipwreck, by suretyship, by fire——I call God and all his angels to witness——’tis to clothe the naked——to feed the hungry——’tis to comfort the sick and the broken-hearted.

From Project Gutenberg

If we give credit to these, Civerchio must have flourished to an extreme age, so as to be ranked in this point with Titian, with Calvi, and the other hoary-headed octogenarians of the art.

From Project Gutenberg

"No more than if it was the year '49 and this was San Francisco," said the mate, who was a hoary-headed old sea-dog, a great deal more like the old school than "plain Jack Watchett."

From Project Gutenberg

Some one hath died, and buried is this day; A hoary-headed man, or stripling gay, Or haply some sweet maid, who was a bride, And, ere her head upon his bosom lay Who deem'd her all his own,—the Virgin died!

From Project Gutenberg