Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowie
Literary usage of Frowie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"(vi, 55), frowie = musty (vii, 111), mazie (xii, 25), ... Diet., where several
of these are contained. frowie, mazie ..."
2. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier (1862)
"... myght be corrupted, "o Or like not of the frowie fede,k or with the ...
often fayne) k Or like not of the frowie fede. ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"1908. 8°. (Writings of American statesmen. Ed. by LB Evans, vi) JEWS. Adler (Elkan
Nathan). Auto de fé and Jew. London: II. frowie, 1909. ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Musty, stale, 1579 They... .like not of the frowie fede.—Spenser, ' Shepherd's
Calendar,' July. (NED) 1856 This 'ere butter's a leetle grain ..."
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