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White-haired   /waɪt-hɛrd/   Listen
White-haired

adjective
1.
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.  Synonyms: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary.  "Nodded his hoary head"
2.
Favorite.  Synonyms: blue-eyed, fair-haired.






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"White-haired" Quotes from Famous Books



... A handsome white-haired and mustached personage in splendid uniform decorated with jeweled orders and with a cascade of emerald-green plumes nodding in his military hat gravely saluted the shouting people on either side. By him sat a man uniformed, decorated, and emerald-plumed ...
— The Lost Prince • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... to the loggiato, or covered gallery, a delicate, white-haired Italian lady arose and ...
— The Net • Rex Beach

... with reviving day; And while yon little bark glides down the bay, 5 Wafting the stranger on his way again, Morn's genial influence roused a minstrel gray, And sweetly o'er the lake was heard thy strain, Mixed with the sounding harp, O white-haired Allan-bane! ...
— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... The door was opened, after a good deal of ineffectual fumbling at bolts and rattling of chains, by an old, white-haired serving man, who looked as if he had stepped out of the story to which Julian had alluded. He was very deaf, and it was some time before Janetta could make him understand that she wanted to see Mrs. Brand. Evidently ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... heart, Phil, of course your daddy will do whatever you want, if he's here to do it. But you'll live, Phil, please God, until I am old and bent and white-haired, and you are a grown man, with a beard, and a little boy ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt


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