hoar
Americannoun
adjective
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rare covered with hoarfrost
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archaic a poetic variant of hoary
Etymology
Origin of hoar
before 900; Middle English hor, Old English hār; cognate with Old Norse hārr gray with age, Old Frisian hēr gray, Old High German hēr old ( German hehr august, sublime)
Example Sentences
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Bernadette Benz waited for a day with hoar frost before taking her picture called Frosted Silver Birch which won the Trees, Woods and Forests category.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2023
After all, the Japanese poem style lends itself to spare reflections on nature, crystalline musings on blossoms, songbirds or hoar frost.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2022
“There’s a potential avalanche layer, for sure,” Stimberis says, noting a layer created by freezing rain and another by surface hoar, or, in laymen’s terms, a gnarly frost.
From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2017
Here’s a Miniature Crystalline Forest of hoar frost, which forms when water vapor in the air condenses directly into ice.
From Scientific American • Jan. 25, 2014
Hoist the hoar sun to welcome morning’s minions.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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