frouzy
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
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
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
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