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hoary
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adjective
ancient
hoary jokes
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adjective
(= canescent)
covered with fine whitish hairs or down
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adjective
(= grey, gray, hoar)
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
whose beard with age is hoar
— Coleridge
nodded his hoary head
puffleg
noun
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Any of numerous species of hummingbirds of the genera Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia, with large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.