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  • noun Plural form of grayhead.

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Examples

  • Clustered together on the wooden benches, like penned sheep, was the curia, the thirty elderly grayheads who were the chiefs of the tribes of Rome.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • It's the grayheads hell bent on keeping the "no blacks allowed" sign on the White House door.

    Rep. Ike Skelton picks Clinton 2008

  • That we have nothing to fear but fear itself is for the old grayheads!

    Archive 2006-09-01 Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • That we have nothing to fear but fear itself is for the old grayheads!

    Livingston: Hire 1000 New Cops Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • The grayheads did not believe in Fordus, did not believe in a coming freedom.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • Yet this was not the type of conquest he preferred; such women were equally avid for Game-skilled teeners and grayheads.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Yet this was not the type of conquest he preferred; such women were equally avid for Game-skilled teeners and grayheads.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • "Delightful days," he wrote home, "loitering around all day long, and talking with grayheads who were boys and girls with me thirty or forty years ago."

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

  • And then he added apologetically, "It's 'cause I've sailed under so many grayheads, ye know."

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • Plenty of grayheads there remember them to this day, and can tell you about them.

    Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

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