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n. - Great age (especially grey or white with age); A silvery-white color.

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  • My heart and head are like in age with similar hoariness
  • At least your graybeard offers something to accompany his hoariness and odour.
  • ‘Quoth she to me, ‘I see thou dy’st thy hoariness;’ and I, ‘I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye!’
  • From the time that a person notices the first gray strands, it can take ten years or more to complete the process of complete hoariness.
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