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German
Etymology
grau (“gray”) + meliert (“mottled”)
Adjective
graumeliert (strong nominative masculine singular graumelierter, not comparable)
- (chiefly of hair) graying, salt-and-pepper (flecked with gray)
- Synonym: angegraut
1942, Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern [The World of Yesterday]:Sie trugen ihre schönen, graumelierten Bärte – Wilbrandt, Ebers, Felix Dahn, Paul Heyse, Lenbach, diese heute längst verschollenen Lieblinge jener Zeit – über poetischen Samtjacken.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Positive forms of graumeliert (uncomparable)
Further reading
- “graumeliert” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache