graybeard

graybeard
graybearded, adj.
/gray"beard'/, n.
1. Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
2. bellarmine.
Also, greybeard.
[1570-80; GRAY1 + BEARD]

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