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Definition of Fustiest
1. fusty [adj] - See also: fusty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fustiest
Literary usage of Fustiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"The insidious traces of the insect are well known, whilst the animal itself is
almost a myth; many who have passed a life amid the fustiest and dustiest of ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1877)
"At last, and in good hour, we come to his farewell, which is to be a concluding
taste of his jabber- ment in law, the flashiest and the fustiest that ever ..."
3. Milton by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1900)
"... a rank pettifogger, a presumptuous losel, a clown, a vice, a huckster-at-law,
whose " jabber- ment is the flashiest and the fustiest that ever corrupted ..."
4. My Diary in America in the Midst of War by George Augustus Sala (1865)
"months' sojourn in the States, a decent slice of breakfast bacon. It is the
rustiest, fustiest, most salt, mahogany- looking, ..."
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