longbeard

plural longbeards

1. literalA man with a long beard.
2. poeticSynonym of greybeard (“an old man”).

   Synonyms: greybeard

3. Synonym of greybeard (“experienced long-time member of a group”).

   For those who have never navigated “Fairways,” as some longbeards call the original store — there are satellites in Harlem and Brooklyn and on Long Island, with another planned for New Jersey — it is a low-ceilinged warren under pitiless fluorescents.

   2009 January 31, Glenn Collins, “A Slow New York Passage, Up to Organic Food”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: greybeard

4. Synonym of greybeard (“a bellarmine”).

   Synonyms: greybeard