戴たい白はく

noun

old people; gray-haired

Archaic literary term for elderly people or the state of having gray hair. Not used in everyday speech; modern equivalents include 老人 or 白髪になる.

• 古こ典てんでは「戴たい白はく」は白はく髪はつの老ろう人じんを指さす言こと葉ばとして使つかわれた。

  In classical texts, 戴白 was used as a term for gray-haired old people.