老lou5生sang1

lou5 sang1inferredlǎo shēng

English

venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)

Examples

今天的激进也许是明天的老生常谈。
What's radical today may be cliché tomorrow.
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Sources: cc-cedict, synthesized

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