frowst
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of frowst
C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of frowzy
Example Sentences
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After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual or sixpenny magazines.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
You liked shutting the window on a cold night and collecting a crowd and raising such a frowst that the air was solid and the windows steamed.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
It was a big place with only a tiny stove to warm it, and the windows were shut so that the atmosphere was a cold frowst.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
The places are heated but not aired, and the smell is horrid; but they seem to revel in "frowst."
From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Salmon, Betty Keays-Young
Its charm is so deliciously old in this land, so deliciously young compared with the lovely frowst of Oxford and Cambridge.
From Letters from America by Brooke, Rupert
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