hoar
Winter's white coat
Hoar describes something white or gray with age or frost.
Hoar frost is the feathery ice crystals that form on cold surfaces overnight: The field was white with hoar frost.
The word is archaic or literary when describing age—a hoar head is gray-haired, ancient.
Hoar shares a root with hoary, which is more common.
Deserving honor for dignity
- ancientVery old indeed
- elderlyAdvanced in age
- gray-hairedHaving silver locks
- white-hairedHaving colorless locks
time-worn · grizzled · silvered · patriarchal · matriarchal · wizened · weathered · stooped
venerable
Deserving honor for dignity
- ancientVery old indeed
- elderlyAdvanced in age
- gray-hairedHaving silver locks
white-haired · time-worn · grizzled · silvered · patriarchal · matriarchal · wizened · weathered · stooped · sage
rime
Granular ice deposit
frozen · frigid · glacial · frostwork · crystalline · whiteout · glaze · chill · subzero · frostbite
archaic
Belonging to earlier times
bygone · prehistoric · old · aged · forgotten · legendary · mythic · ancestral · time-honored · immemorial