The phrase "affectionate old" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an elderly person who is warm, loving, or caring in nature.
Example: "The affectionate old man always had a kind word for the children in the neighborhood."
Alternatives: "loving elderly" or "caring senior".
They start and finish the other's sentences in the manner of an affectionate old couple.
Even if the experiment hustled us straight past love and in to affectionate old flames, it gave us a night that I don't suppose either of us will forget.
They mistakenly believe each other to be unfaithful, and when Lucy's Steel City Dance company disintegrates on the eve of a big competition for grants, Achilles and his father's affectionate old cronies dance to the rescue by performing a traditional syrtaki.
At first, he finds handfuls of adjectives… "affectionate", "old-fashioned", "warm".
L.A. also has, over the years, had a bouquet of rooms strewn about -- Shelly's Man-Hole, the Lighthouse, the Parisian Room, Jack's Basket, Concerts by the Sea -- that affectionate old-timers wax poetic about.
Paul Simon was affectionate in "Old Friends," when he mused "how terribly strange to be 70".
He was the last child of affectionate but older parents — his father, Samuel White, a piano-company executive, was forty-five when he was born and his mother, Jessie, forty-one.
He was the last child of affectionate but older parents—his father, Samuel White, a piano-company executive, was forty-five when he was born and his mother, Jessie, forty-one.
("Subtle Bodies") Father William: an affectionate appellation meaning "old man".
It was a wonderfully warm, affectionate evening with old friends and family.
The colloquial, affectionate viejita – "little old lady" – was a typical Mujica touch.
