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SILVER-HAIRED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silver-haired mean?
• SILVER-HAIRED (adjective)
The adjective SILVER-HAIRED has 1 sense:
1. having hair the color of silver
Familiarity information: SILVER-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having hair the color of silver
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Context examples
And now, if I do but step into the parlour, I can see her once more, with over eighty years of saintly life behind her, silver-haired, placid-faced, with her dainty ribboned cap, her gold-rimmed glasses, and her woolly shawl with the blue border.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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