hoar

"This bear came in the early hours of the morning, so it was really hoar frost and covered," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2022

After all, the Japanese poem style lends itself to spare reflections on nature, crystalline musings on blossoms, songbirds or hoar frost.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022

A two-foot layer of sticky, dense snow lay atop a few more feet of loose, grainy hoar.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2019

“There’s a potential avalanche layer, for sure,” Stimberis says, noting a layer created by freezing rain and another by surface hoar, or, in laymen’s terms, a gnarly frost.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 28, 2017

There was hoar frost last night, and all of the bare branches are coated white and sparkling.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Withering and Stapylton had arrived fully two hoars earlier than they were expected, and Miss Dinah was too deeply engaged in the household cares that were to do them honor to receive them.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

I think," said the vicar, "A read service quicker Than viols out-of-doors In these frosts and hoars.

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy