silvered
English
Adjective
silvered (comparative more silvered, superlative most silvered)
- Coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.
- Hoary with age; silver-haired.
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- Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible dollmaker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age.
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