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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 silverplay

  Familiarity information: SILVER-HAIRED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SILVER-HAIRED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hair the color of silver

Similar:

haired; hairy; hirsute (having or covered with hair)


 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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