hoariness

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

O thou who dyest hoariness with black, viii.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Whereby it doth appear, that hoariness is nothing but a whiteness of hair, caused by a putrefaction of the humours about the roots of the hair, through the want of natural heat in old age.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

The merchant fared forth and returned to the old woman who, seeing him changed of complexion, said to him, "What did his hoariness ask thee?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton