frouzy
Americanadjective
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The frouzy cotton was visible at other places—peeping through various rents both in jacket and trousers.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
“Every morning,” says a newspaper correspondent, “in hail, rain or snow, the poet dons his frouzy cap and his frouzier slouch hat, and promenades for an hour or so, none daring to disturb him.”
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
He glanced at the frouzy hair, to which not even the beauty of the face beneath could reconcile him; then at the scratched and sun-burned hands, and lastly at the stained and battered gown.
From An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by Wetherald, A. Ethelwyn
It don't look much like what you got on your head, but I work a lot in the garden, and if I don't have somethin' on my head my hair gets all frouzy.
From Drusilla with a Million by Cooper, Elizabeth
Who would not prefer one Virgin and Child of Raphael, to all the pictures which Rubens, with his fat, frouzy Dutch Venuses, ever painted?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
“Every morning,” says a newspaper correspondent, “in hail, rain or snow, the poet dons his frouzy cap and his frouzier slouch hat, and promenades for an hour or so, none daring to disturb him.”
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
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