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How to pronounce hoar in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms frost, hoarfrost, rime
Type of ice, water ice
Type Words
Synonyms gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoary, white-haired


whose beard with age is hoar.
nodded his hoary head.

Examples of hoar

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Under a thick hoar frost, the landscape seems almost ethereally lovely.
From the independent.co.uk
Who wants to come home from the sleet and the hoar to a beansprout and grapefruit salad?
From the guardian.co.uk
It was a wickedly cold but stunningly beautiful trip in a hoar frost.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Surface hoar is a cause of avalanches when it forms on top of snow.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He is an unreconstructed East Saxon with a beard like hoar frost and a wicked twinkle in his eye.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Patroller Craig Sterbenz looks at what is called surface hoar.
From the denverpost.com
Hoar frost may have different names depending on where it forms.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Unlike hoar frost, which has a feathery appearance, rime generally has an icy solid appearance.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In low temperatures surface hoar can also be broken apart and blown across the surface forming yukimarimo.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Frost: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
  • Grey: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
  • This is a list of the fictional deities in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
  • A white or greyish-white colour; Of a white or greyish-white colour
  • (hoared) moldy; musty