Frouzy

Frou´zy


a.1.Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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A frouzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
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Neither was it a poor caravan drawn by a single donkey or emaciated horse, for a pair of horses in pretty good condition were released from the shafts and grazing on the frouzy grass.
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I was terribly afraid, from what I had heard of Blackwater Park, of fatiguing antique chairs, and dismal stained glass, and musty, frouzy hangings, and all the barbarous lumber which people born without a sense of comfort accumulate about them, in defiance of the consideration due to the convenience of their friends.
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