hoar
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9.9
- noun
- /hɔr/
- UK
:
escarcha
- In the night, a hoar frost had fallen that was to snow as sleep is to death; and the pale reaped fields, the sere meadows, and silent uplands were transfigured by the first gleam of day to a mystery and glory of silver and pearl.
- hoar frost
Examples
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Across the road to the meadow, his gaze wandered, seeing each frozen blade of grass, every shadow of trunk and branch in the carpet of hoar frost.
Fiction book (1995) -
There is a willow grows aslant a brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
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To the warm light of hoar frost.
Fiction book (2001) -
Its mouth opens in a soundless scream as the hoar-frost races up its legs, across its body.
Fiction book (1991) -
There is a willow grows aslant the brook... that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
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A wind whipped furiously into the crowded little room and clung coldly, like hoar-frost, around his face and breast, which was covered only by a shirt.
Fiction book (1991) -
The ground was covered in hoar frost, creating a beautiful sparkling landscape in the early morning light.
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In winter, the trees are often adorned with hoar frost, making the forest look magical.
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After the freezing night, I noticed hoar frost on the window, which made it hard to see outside.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thin layer of ice crystals on surfaces from very cold weather
1
9.3
A white layer of ice crystals that forms on trees, grass, and fences after a cold night
1
9.6
A white layer of frozen water that forms on cold surfaces
Antonyms
How Frosty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hoar comes from an old English word hār that meant 'grey' or 'white', the same idea you see in the word hoary. So hoar for frost means the white, icy crystals that cover plants and make the world look grey or silver.