[1665–75; north var. of hoar]This word is first recorded in the period 1665–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: diffraction, group, suite, wader, wig
Examples of 'haar' in a sentence
haar
The smell of the haar, and the swiftness of its arrival, had unnerved him.
Barbara Erskine HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Generally, this landscape is covered in the haar, a claustrophobic sea fog.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It is beyond the map, 'out beyond the rolling haar', that we go for the most meaningful encounters of all.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
It is, as one reader put it, more rainy than a haar and less 'falling-downy' than a drizzle.