weatherworn
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]weatherworn (comparative more weatherworn, superlative most weatherworn)
- Damaged or eroded by the weather.
- 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman[1]:
- His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat.
- 1920, Earl Wayland Bowman, The Ramblin' Kid[2]:
- Old Heck said again, his weatherworn features working convulsively, "it's more than a mortal man can endure and stand!"
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[3]:
- A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic.