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Meanings of hoary in inglés

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Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.

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      Covered with fine whitish hairs or down.

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            Examples for "canescent"
            Examples for "canescent"
            1
            Indeed, after the canescent heat of the day, and the tossing of our ill-conditioned vessel, we should have been contented with lodgings far less luxurious.
            Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
            Usage of hoary in inglés
            1
            As if we hadn't heard that hoary old line a thousand times.
            More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
            2
            If it bears the hall-mark of hoary antiquity, so much the better.
            The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
            3
            Dunmore had evidently never thought of that hoary device; he chuckled appreciatively.
            Murder in the Gunroom
            4
            You shall rise before the hoary head and honor an old man.
            The Children's Bible
            5
            He was short, and very thin; his cheeks were pale-his hair hoary.
            Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
            6
            They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.
            The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
            7
            Then he went on to the upper chamber with the hoary-headed man.
            Bulfinch's Mythology
            8
            And immediately she rose up from the hoary deep, like a mist.
            The Iliad of Homer (1873)
            9
            And the hoary-headed man, and his wife, and his daughter were sorrowful.
            The Mabinogion
            10
            Stale chocolate cake from the bakery with a hoary pack of frost.
            The Girls
            11
            All their hoary political iniquities had not deprived them of that dignity.
            The Crimes of England
            12
            And while they were thus, behold there entered a venerable hoary-headed man.
            The Mabinogion
            13
            So much for that hoary old cliche about remembering only the winners!
            The Guardian
            14
            Gothos himself, hoary old teller of tales and self-appointed judge of all.
            Blood and Bone
            15
            Who will hear our Scotch stories, never suspecting their hoary old age?
            Penelope's Experiences in Scotland / Being Extracts from the Com...
            16
            How it takes one back-backinto hoary antiquity, into another landscape altogether!
            Alone
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