She had arrived back from "Europe," as has been hinted earlier, in some disarray, alighting from a crowded train of frowsty refugees, silent, enraged yet reflective after her odyssey.
"Command"
William McFee
Our goods must never get into a "frowsty," shop-damaged state.
"Dawson Black: Retail Merchant"
Harold Whitehead
Placed on Diana's left at table, he gave her much voluble information about her neighbors, mostly ill-natured; he spoke familiarly of "that clever chap Marsham," as of a politician who owed his election for the division entirely to the good offices of Mr. Fred Birch's firm, and described Lady Lucy as "an old dear," though very "frowsty" in her ideas.
"The Testing of Diana Mallory"
Mrs. Humphry Ward