greybeard
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪˌbɪrd/
- Archaic
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- During the historical reenactment, the participants drank from a greybeard crafted in the style of Cardinal Bellarmine.
Examples
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The antique shop displayed a beautiful greybeard with intricate designs and a long neck.
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Old Greybeard.
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The Greybeard Baron spots Little John and Fanny on the parapet.
Fiction book (1991) -
Some of the men farther up the line were old greybeards, others little more than boys, all of them accused of being deserters or sympathizers.
Fiction book (1997) -
Finally, Segismundo, as babe and greybeard, incorporates both his birth and his father's banishment of him through the image of the father as Saturn swallowing the son and becoming one.
Academic text (1992) -
The greybeards on Cross Validated are really awesome statisticians and programmers, and to waste their time with such silliness seems to me to be rude in the extreme.
Blog text (7) -
In the 17th century, people often used a greybeard for serving wine at festivities.
Synonyms
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An old pottery jug with a long neck and a bearded face used for holding drinks
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A tall clay jug with a long neck decorated with a painted face, used for drinking in the 1600s
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A tall old jug with a long neck and a bearded face that people drink from
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word greybeard for the 17th-century drinking jug comes from the simple parts grey ('grey') and beard ('facial hair'), because makers put a bearded face on the long neck of the jug. So the jug was called a greybeard because it looked like a grey-bearded man.