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grey-headed en · ADJ
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of gray-headed.
It is true that there are men to be found who never rise beyond a curacy; as there are grey-headed midshipmen occasionally to be seen in the navy. But the former case is quite as rare as the latter; promotion is the rule, non-promotion the exception, in both professions.
1854, The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, page 114: