hoarfrosty

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Etymology

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From hoarfrost +‎ -y.

Adjective

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hoarfrosty (comparative more hoarfrosty, superlative most hoarfrosty)

  1. Covered with hoar frost.
    • 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:
      [] “the sky all on fire over there,” as the hoarfrosty evening fell.
    • 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:
      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, []
    • 2001, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 312:
      When her headcloth came off, the coils of hair shone night-black, with hoarfrosty glints of silver.

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