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Weatherworn

Weatherworn \Weath"er*worn`\, a. Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.

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weatherworn

a. damage or eroded by the weather.

WordNet
weatherworn

adj. worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles" [syn: weather-beaten, weathered]

Usage examples of "weatherworn".

He hopes that the book may for many readers touch with new meaning those old weatherworn stones at Botany Bay, and make the personality of Laperouse live again for such as nourish an interest in Australian history.

His deeply creased, weatherworn face was splotched with pink, windburned patches.

Checked and weatherworn, it gave an impression of great antiquity, which was further borne out by the remains of an almost obliterated inscription upon the face of its massive base.

These pedestals supported statues that, despite their weatherworn appearance, were clearly intended to depict Arick, Duclea, Leora, and Tobyn.

They wanted to avoid touching those rocks that appeared weatherworn and crumbly.

A sharp knock sounded on the office door and a tall man with a seamed, weatherworn face and sharp blue eyes came in from the anteroom.

From rustling foliage where cuckoos call On summer evenings, stands a belvedere, Buff-hued, of antique plaster, overrun With flowering vines and weatherworn by rain and sun.

For years the fertile Western plains Were hid behind your sullen walls, Your cliffs and crags and waterfalls All weatherworn with tropic rains.

Elbryan looked at the hopeful, crooked grin on the weatherworn face of Tomas Gingerwart and recognized that the man was his friend.

The old man, as unshaven as Piotr, wore an Imperial Postal Service jacket so weatherworn its blue had turned grey.

The trio passed an unsavory-looking tavern, a place by the cheery name of The Bloated Corpse, if Kern read the peeling, weatherworn sign correctly.

Mina dragged weatherworn boards and parts of crates from where they had washed up against the nearest pylon, all the time wondering if the aughisky was nearby and what she would do if it decided on a snack.

In the lowest branches of an overhanging tree there bobbed little woolen dolls, little woolen balls, and heads of garlic, all looking weatherworn and drab.

The window at which I stood was tall and deep, stone-mullioned, and though weatherworn, was still complete.

It moaned in the passes, weatherworn cuts between peaks capped with snow that never melted.