grizzled
adjective C2- Greyed, old.
- Grey or partly grey.
- Streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous.
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He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache.
A minute later we heard steps upon the stairs, and an elderly red-faced man with grizzled side-whiskers was ushered in.
He was simply what the porter described as a “medium-looking chap,” a man of fifty, beard grizzled, pale face, quietly dressed.
He was a man about five foot nine in height, fifty or so years of age, his hair slightly grizzled, a grayish moustache, a curved nose, and a face which all of them described as fierce and forbidding.”
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