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Hairstyle concealing old man with a title (7)

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baronet

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'title' is the definition.
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'hairstyle concealing old man with a' is the wordplay.
'hairstyle' becomes 'bret' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'concealing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation as in OT - Old Testament).
'man' becomes 'N' (knight, a man in chess).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'o'+'n'='on'
'bret' enclosing 'on' is 'bronet'.
'bronet' enclosing 'a' is 'BARONET'.

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(Other definitions for baronet that I've seen before include "Minor title" , "Minor noble" , "Bent oar (anag.)" , "A Bronte (anag.)" , "Aristocrat" .)

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