frowst

• A wave of icy air swept out the frowst, and Leithen found himself looking into a radiant world, rimmed with peaks of bright snow and canopied by a sky so infinitely far away that it had no colour except that of essential light. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Détaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst"; Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• The victory is not always to the weak 23] The house-cap, only worn by members of the House Cricket Eleven 24] Lying in bed in the morning when there is no First School is a "frowst." —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Detaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst;" Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
• The victory is not always to the weak 5] The house-cap, only worn by members of the House Cricket Eleven 6] Lying in bed in the morning when there is no First School is a "frowst." —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship

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