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Definition of Fusty

Fusty
Fusty Fusty, a. [Compar. Fustier; superl Fustiest.] [See 2d Fust.] 1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. ``A fusty plebeians.' --Shak. 2. Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.

Meaning of Fusty from wikipedia

- Look up fustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fustic is a common name for several plants and a yellow dye produced from these plants: Maclura tinctoria...
- as old fustic and dyer's mulberry, is a medium to large tree of the Neotropics, from Mexico to Argentina. It produces a yellow dye called fustic primarily...
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fustic" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 375. "Young fustic". Britannica.com. Encyclopaedia...
- To its devotees, the bow tie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bow tie hints at intellectualism...
- Keats House (also known as Wentworth Place) was too small and "a little bit fusty". Some filming also took place at Elstree Studios. Composer Mark Bradshaw...
- Riot, starring Kenneth More, which featured his five-year-old daughter "Fusty". He joked that she got better billing. From 1960 to 1964, he had a television...
- rather than having the character sound like "some Oxford-educated, old, fusty guy in a tudor parlor somewhere", and aside from researching the character's...
- they once were. Slate.com wrote of them: "Glazed carrots have a slightly fusty, mid-century vibe about them, as though they'd feel right at home sitting...
- feels resolutely old-fashioned (which isn’t a bad thing at all) but also fusty (which is)". Rating the film 2/5, Reza Noorani of The Times of India wrote...
- the Attic, closet drama is "Dreariest of literature, most second hand and fusty of experience!" But indeed a great deal of it was written in Victorian times...