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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hawr-ee, hohr-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɔr i, ˈhoʊr i |
Definition of hoary
Origin :- 1510s, "gray or white with age" (of hair); c.1600 as "venerable, ancient;" from hoar + -y (2). Related: Hoariness.
- adj ancient
- adj gray or white
- One hoary tower only is seen, half hidden by the folds of a valley.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- My stockings all want to see my mother, and my hat is hoary with age.'
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- He listened with eager docility to the voice of hoary wisdom.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- I will listen with coolness to the voice of native sagacity and hoary experience.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- On the contrary, I look upon you as a swaggering bully and a hoary villain.
- Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell
- One cannot demand from a captain of twenty-five the austerity of a hoary philosopher.
- Extract from : « King Candaules » by Thophile Gautier
- And immediately she rose up from the hoary deep, like a mist.
- Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer
- Loose his beard; his hoary hairStreamed like a meteor to the troubled air.
- Extract from : « Bertha and Her Baptism » by Nehemiah Adams
- Near by, old Anaxagoras, bald and hoary, traced figures in the dust with a compass.
- Extract from : « Thais » by Anatole France
- Manna do they thus gather to feed on, when their hair is hoary.
- Extract from : « Man of Uz, and Other Poems » by Lydia Howard Sigourney
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