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So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing?

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

Fashionable homes across the country began sprouting lichened stone urns and zinc-top pedestal tables bearing sun-bleached patinas.

From Architectural Digest • Mar. 18, 2015

The bridge was of gray stone, lichened, dappled with slow moisture where the fungus crept.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

He broke the seal with a strange feeling as if, walking in some familiar thoroughfare, he had stumbled on a lichened and sunken tombstone.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

The common voice attests all these things, and an eerie cemetery packed with blackened, lichened, candle-extinguisher tomb-stones persuades the listener to believe all that he hears.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard