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発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: hô, IPA^(key): /hɔː/
• (General American) enPR: hôr, IPA^(key): /hɔɹ/ *
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: hōr, IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: whore

名詞

hoar

1. A white or greyish-white colour.

   hoar:  

2. Hoariness; antiquity.
   • 1796, Burke, Edmund, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, tenth edition, London: For J. Owen, and F. and C. Rivington, page 52:

     His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

同意語

• (hoariness): agedness, ancientness, oldhood; see also Thesaurus:oldness

形容詞

hoar (not comparable)

1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 10:

     hoar waters

   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, stanza CI:

     old trees with trunks all hoar

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     Bright fell the moonlight on pillar and court and shattered wall, hiding all their rents and imperfections in its silver garment, and clothing their hoar majesty with the peculiar glory of the night.

2. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
   • 1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire

     And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
     Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, OCLC 12526426, (please specify either |part=I または II):

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
     Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
     Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
     Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], line 134:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

4. (archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 173:

     The great popularity of the Stuarts—certainly more allied to personal causes than we can at present calculate—is a curious fact. It was not one of those feelings drawn from hoar antiquity, when habit has become religion.

派生語

関連する語

• haar
• horehound

動詞

hoar (三人称単数 現在形 hoars, 現在分詞 hoaring, 過去形および過去分詞形 hoared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], line 136:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

参考

• Appendix:Colors

アナグラム

• Haro, Hora, ROAH, haor, haro, hora, oh ar