hoary
HOR-eeadjMeaning very old; gray or white with age
Memory hook HOAR-FROST white: gray with AGE. Professor Edwin’s beard is so long and white that it looks dusted with frost; he is hoary with age.
The hoary old oak had stood in the village square for three hundred years.
In context The comedian’s act was full of hoary jokes that audiences had been groaning at since their grandparents’ day.
Similar ancient, aged, gray, timeworn
Opposite young, new, fresh
From hoar, an old word for gray or white, as in hoarfrost.