half-centuried

Updated: July 18, 2025

Swarthy, black-eyed, stout, half-centuried, fiercely cunning, and immoderately sensual, her first salutation was expressed in a phrase such as a Corinthian soul might be greeted with on entering that portion of the after-world devoted to the fastest of the fair.

Charles Godfrey Leland - The English Gipsies and Their Language