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Definition
old-fashionedor more rarely: appearing old
even more rarely: covered with fine whitish hairs or down
- All things vanished within The snowy murk-white, hoary.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- Despite its fringe of green it was hoary with age.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- Maege is a hoary old snark, stubborn, short-tempered, and willful.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- At the edge of the heath stood a clump of hoary juniper bushes.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- The larger, ragged, and fantastic branches still obtruded themselves abroad, while the white and hoary trunk stood naked and tempest-riven.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- 38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?The Bible -- Job
- They dangled under ash and alder, beech and birch, larch and elm, hoary old willows and stately chestnut trees.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- At every fork, they kept to the right, making camp at —night amidst the hollows of hoary trees, whose great roots provided shelter from the wind.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Unperturbed, relieved, he turned his face toward the vast bleak earth, gray and hoary in the iron grip of winter.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- It isn't just setting, that hoary old English class topic.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- The air, afflicted to pallor with the hoary multitudes that infested it, twisted and spun them eccentrically, suggesting an achromatic chaos of things.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Like the one I had at first seen in the hold, they all bore about them the marks of a hoary old age.Edgar Allan Poe -- MS. Found in a Bottle
- The hoary old warrior looked as if he had bitten into something he did not like the taste of.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.The Bible -- Proverbs
- On the one hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
- The bent and hoary man was satisfied, and so apparently was Henery Fray.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- It consisted mostly of a hoary midnight-blue Japanese kimono.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- He lifted his heavy eyes and saw leaning over him a huge willow-tree, old and hoary.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring