hoar
Americannoun
adjective
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rare covered with hoarfrost
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archaic a poetic variant of hoary
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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)
Vocabulary lists containing hoar
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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"This bear came in the early hours of the morning, so it was really hoar frost and covered," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2022
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
A two-foot layer of sticky, dense snow lay atop a few more feet of loose, grainy hoar.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2019
“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
Hoist the hoar sun to welcome morning’s minions.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think," said the vicar, "A read service quicker Than viols out-of-doors In these frosts and hoars.
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas
Withering and Stapylton had arrived fully two hoars earlier than they were expected, and Miss Dinah was too deeply engaged in the household cares that were to do them honor to receive them.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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