"hoarfrosty" meaning in English

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      "form": "more hoarfrosty",
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          "text": "[…] “the sky all on fire over there,” as the hoarfrosty evening fell.",
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          "ref": "1878 February 2, John Ruskin, edited by Helen Gill Viljoen, The Brantwood Diary of John Ruskin, Together with Selected Related Letters and Sketches of Persons Mentioned, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, page 87:",
          "text": "Down all right, after waking at ½ past 4, and sleeping again through a long St Gothard dream—mixed of sugary ice—where I was a little girl frightened at a sorcerer for a while, and running away along a hoarfrosty road, […]",
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          "ref": "2001, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 312:",
          "text": "When her headcloth came off, the coils of hair shone night-black, with hoarfrosty glints of silver.",
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        "Covered with hoar frost."
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          "hoar frost",
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        {
          "word": "hoarfrosted"
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          "word": "hoar-frosty"
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  "word": "hoarfrosty"
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          "text": "Down all right, after waking at ½ past 4, and sleeping again through a long St Gothard dream—mixed of sugary ice—where I was a little girl frightened at a sorcerer for a while, and running away along a hoarfrosty road, […]",
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          "text": "When her headcloth came off, the coils of hair shone night-black, with hoarfrosty glints of silver.",
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        "Covered with hoar frost."
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