weatherworn

English

Etymology

weather +‎ worn

Adjective

weatherworn (comparative more weatherworn, superlative most weatherworn)

1. 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.