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Sexagenarian

adjective
1.
Being from 60 to 69 years old.





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"Sexagenarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eucrates, of all credible witnesses? That venerably bearded sexagenarian, with his philosophic leanings? I could never have believed that he would lend his countenance to other people's lies, much less that he was capable ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various
... simply into a provincial; who was ready to take part in any comedy in order to make money, and not to be obliged to waste her strength and her brains on fruitless struggles or on wretched expedients. Thus she immediately guessed the state of this melancholy sexagenarian's mind, and the illusions which attracted him to her, and scented the spoils which offered themselves to her cupidity of their own accord, and divined under what guise she ought to show herself, to make ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant


Words linked to "Sexagenarian" :   old person, oldster, golden ager, old, senior citizen


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