whitehairedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white +‎ haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

形容詞

white-haired (not comparable)

1. Having white hair; especially, of a person, from old age.

   Synonyms: hoary; see also Thesaurus:elderly

   Near-synonyms: grizzly, silver-haired; see also Thesaurus:grey-haired

   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:

     The white-haired king took the tidings with calm, believing that he must have in some fashion broken a law without knowing.

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