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hoarfrosty en · ADJ

Etymology

From hoarfrost + -y.

Meanings

1. Covered with hoar frost.
   • When her headcloth came off, the coils of hair shone night-black, with hoarfrosty glints of silver. 2001, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 312:
   • […] “the sky all on fire over there,” as the hoarfrosty evening fell. 1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Peace of Dresden: Friedrich Does March Home”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, page 219:
   • Down all right, after waking at ½ past 4, and sleeping again through a long St Gothard dream—mixed of sugary ice—where I was a little girl frightened at a sorcerer for a while, and running away along a hoarfrosty road, […] 1878 February 2, John Ruskin, edited by Helen Gill Viljoen, The Brantwood Diary of John Ruskin, Together with Selected Related Letters and Sketches of Persons Mentioned, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, page 87:

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Synonyms

hoarfrosted