For a moment I doubted Carpenter; surely these ladies with their decorative bonnets, their sweet perfumes, their gowns of rose and lilac and other pastel shades-surely they were more important life-products than women in frowsy and dowdy imitation clothes!
"They Call Me Carpenter"
Upton Sinclair
Val was so happy at the prospect of getting away from the town that she actually threw a kiss in the direction of Arline, standing with her frowsy head, her dough-spotted apron, and her tired face in the parlor door.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
After that Alison felt very desolate as she stood alone amid the swarm of frowsy aliens who poured out from the train.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss