fusty

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  1. adjective Smelling of mildew or decay; musty.
  2. adjective Old-fashioned; antique.

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  • She ignored the food, but drank Ae stale, fusty-tasting water avidly. —  Arrow's Fall
  • "Do you remember last hols she kept saying 'fusty-musty-dusty' till we nearly screamed at her?" —  The Valley of Adventure
  • I don't know if it's my imagination, but it all seems sort of fusty-like an Italian town. —  What Happened to the Corbetts
  • Yaxley waited, but Voldemort did not speak, so he went on, "Dawlish, the Auror, let slip that Potter will not be moved until the thirtieth, the night before the boy turns seventeen. —  Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
  • 'In the lands of the Nadir.' —  Waylander
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French fust, piece of wood, wine cask, from Latin fūstis, stick, club.

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  1. Also fousty, foisty; from Old French fusté, fusty, tasting of the cask, from fuste, a cask: see fust. Hence fust.
 

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