📚 Hoary, adjective. 🔉 /ˈhɔːri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Greyish white. ❗️ Examples: 1. Hoary cobwebs. 2. The painstakingly raised and restored Vasa and Mary Rose, favourites of Kings Gustavus Adolphus and Henry VIII respectively, are threatened by a chemical reaction as their hoary old timbers dry out. 3. The Fifth Commandment of the Bible reminds us to honor our fathers and mothers and to ‘rise up before the hoary head of the old man, to pay respect to the elders of the tribe’. 4. And even if you could never bring yourself to back England, there is some good news - now they've finally won a World Cup, those hoary old pictures of the 1966 final might finally get put to the back of the cupboard. 5. What I guessed to be a hawk's feather hung from the back of his skull, probably tied there by a short leather thong attached to his hoary mane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic