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A wooden staircase, buffed by the ages, winds up multiple floors, past displays featuring an idiosyncratic selection of literary fiction and fustily British subjects.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2014

He'd never seen such a small TV" – the boxy, fustily obsolete item lay in a corner, not even plugged in – "or so many books.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2010

The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Big hotels such as the fustily genteel Peninsula and Repulse Bay are packed with tourists.

From Time Magazine Archive

He even hinted that da Costa dressed so fustily to keep his poor friend in countenance.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel