What does grey-headed mean?

grey-headed

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

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"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."

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