adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 (old-fashioned) very old and well known and therefore no longer interesting:
a hoary old joke
2 (literary) (especially of hair) grey or white because a person is old:
His hair was a hoary white.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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