| 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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