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old-fashioned

or 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

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