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单词 grey-bearded
释义 grey-bearded, a.
(Stress variable.)
[f. grey a. + beard + -ed2.]
Having a grey beard; pertaining to or characteristic of a greybeard.
1597Pilgr. Parnass. i. 10 Now, Philomusus, doe youre beardless years..Urge mee to..give gray-bearded counsell to youre age.1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 25 We..speak no more wonders, than the grey bearded men, that have gone before us.1750Johnson Rambler No. 26 ⁋7 To teach young men, who are too tame under representation, how grey-bearded insolence ought to be treated.1818R. Peters in J. Jay's Corr. & Public Papers (1893) IV. 421 A pleasing delusion, which greybearded scrutiny..should never extinguish.1899Expositor Feb. 131 We fancied them stately and grey-bearded.
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