Origin:
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)
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)
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hoar
O.E. har "gray, venerable, old," the connecting notion being gray hair, from P.Gmc. *khairaz, from PIE *koi- "to shine." German retains the word as a title of respect, in Herr. Of frost, it is recorded in O.E. (hoar-frost is late 13c.), expressing the resemblance of the white feathers of frost to an
old man's beard. Used as an attribute of boundary stones in O.E. (probably in ref. to being gray with lichens), hence common in place names.
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Example sentences
The cow got nourishment by licking the hoar frost and salt from the ice.
They're trying to understand hoar, frozen dew layers that can shatter when buried under snow, triggering an avalanche.
Light dances on newly formed hoar frost and creeps over bundles of fur and antlers starting to stir from a cold winter night.
The white button of a polar cap is a region covered thinly with hoar frost rather than heavily laden with ice and snow.
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