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Meanings of hoary in English
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
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Usage of hoary in English
1
As if we hadn't heard that hoary old line a thousand times.
2
If it bears the hall-mark of hoary antiquity, so much the better.
3
Dunmore had evidently never thought of that hoary device; he chuckled appreciatively.
4
You shall rise before the hoary head and honor an old man.
5
He was short, and very thin; his cheeks were pale-his hair hoary.
6
They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.
7
Then he went on to the upper chamber with the hoary-headed man.
8
And immediately she rose up from the hoary deep, like a mist.
9
And the hoary-headed man, and his wife, and his daughter were sorrowful.
10
Stale chocolate cake from the bakery with a hoary pack of frost.
11
All their hoary political iniquities had not deprived them of that dignity.
12
And while they were thus, behold there entered a venerable hoary-headed man.
13
So much for that hoary old cliche about remembering only the winners!
14
Gothos himself, hoary old teller of tales and self-appointed judge of all.
15
Who will hear our Scotch stories, never suspecting their hoary old age?
16
How it takes one back-backinto hoary antiquity, into another landscape altogether!
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Hoary across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common