elderly
/ˈɛldɚli/ adjective A2- old; having lived for relatively many years.
- Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.
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No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are provided with,—it had also a voice.
He is an elderly man, red-faced, white-haired, and choleric.
The housekeeper came; a respectable looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil, than she had any notion of finding her.
The same afternoon brought a grey-headed, seedy visitor, looking like a Jew pedlar, who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely followed by a slip-shod elderly woman.
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