hoariness
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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020
What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012
Hoar, hōr, adj. white or grayish-white, esp. with age or frost: mouldy.—n. hoariness: age.—v.i.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
So the wedding-day came, and grass and trees wore a fitting suit of crisp hoariness.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And how well saith another: Quoth she to me, "I see thou dy'st thy hoariness;" and I, "I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou my ear and eye!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
