frouzy
Americanadjective
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Day passed over day: I lived in that horrible lodging; I continued to labour at my novel; it seemed an impossible task—defeat glared at me from every corner of that frouzy room.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
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 Edmund David Jones
What mean ye by bringing me this pair of frouzy shalwars?
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
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 A. Ethelwyn Wetherald
“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 Eugene Parsons
“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 Eugene Parsons
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