Hoar

(a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

(a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.

(a.) Musty; moldy; stale.

(n.) Hoariness; antiquity.

(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.

阿尔玛编辑

• The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Paulina, that gentle hoar-frost of yours, surrounding so much pure, fine flame, is a priceless privilege of nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The distance between us shrank, and the light hoar-frost thawed insensibly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her boots being thinner than those of the young men, the hoar had damped her feet and made them cold. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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