frouzy
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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An ink-stand served him as a candlestick, his chair was at once table and clothes-rack, a ramshackle sofa played the r�le of bed, and a frouzy plush table-cover was his rug.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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
Neither was it a poor caravan drawn by a single donkey or emaciated horse, for a pair of horses in pretty good condition were released from the shafts and grazing on the frouzy grass.
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles
Neither was it a poor caravan drawn by a single donkey or feeble old horse, for a pair of horses in pretty good condition were released from the shafts and grazing on the frouzy grass.
From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles
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 Moore, George (George Augustus)
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