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white-haired, a.
[Cf. ON. hvíthárr, -hærðr.]
1. Having white or hoary hair, esp. from age. Also, covered with white hairs or down, as a plant.
c1400[see haired]. c1440Alphabet of Tales 519 Now I am olde & white-harid. 1530Palsgr. 329/1 Whyte heared, chennu. 1726Papers rel. Scots in Poland (S.H.S. 1915) 210 To two white-haired people..f. 24. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 825 Bryum canescens..leaves..white haired at the ends. 1848Dickens Dombey lxii, The white-haired gentleman's affection for the girl. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay vii, A sweet gravity about her..as charming in her white-haired age as in her fair youth!
2. white-haired boy, a favourite. colloq. Cf. white-headed a. 2 b.
1910Nat. Police Gaz. (U.S.) 29 Jan. 3 (heading) The white haired boy. Ibid. 3/4 He, this white-haired Willie⁓boy, really wanted her to become his wife. 1923H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune's Practice ii. 38 His mother's white⁓haired boy, he is. Not 'alf. 1936J. Dos Passos Big Money 496 You're the whitehaired boy around here. 1977I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief ii. iii. 147 Rudy..was the white-haired boy of the family. |