hoar

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   literary: greyish white with age; old and grey-haired or frost-whitened

   Hoar trunks rose through the mist on either side of the path.

2. 2
   noun

   a white deposit of ice crystals; hoarfrost

   A silver hoar covered the grass before sunrise.

From Middle English hor or hore and Old English har ('grey, white-haired, old'), from a Germanic word for grey. Its colour sense was applied both to age-whitened hair and to the pale crystalline coating now usually called hoarfrost.

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