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Fusty adj. (compar. fustier; superl. fustiest)

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty nut." "Fusty plebeians."

Moping. (Archaic) "A melancholy, fusty humor."

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Etymology of 'Fusty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fusty" Quotes from Famous Books

... had labored ever since-daybreak to arrange the rooms at the villa before the marchesa rose. Pipa had freely used the broom and many pails of water. All the windows were thrown open, and clouds of invisible incense from the flowers without sweetened the fusty rooms. ...

— The Italians • Frances Elliot

... O'Joscelyn, when she had spent three-quarters of an hour in adjusting her curls, and setting her flounces properly, on the evening before the arrival of the two cavalry officers; "not a soul to look at us but a crusty old colonel, a musty old bishop, and a fusty old beau!" ...

— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... the shed where the stretchers were piled up, many of them brown and discoloured by blood, and bundles of fusty army blankets, used as coverings for the wounded, reached almost to the ceiling. They were like the stretchers in some cases, and always sticky to the touch. I could not repress a shudder as I turned away to the much more welcome sight of tea. A ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. ...

— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... ("Fusty old person, out somewhere in the wilds of Finchley," says Hardinge to himself. "Poor little ...

— A Little Rebel - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

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