Fustier [adjective]

I've a good mind to buy the goose going home; but then if it should turn out fusty—I think I had better leave it for Mrs. C.

He is another 'rusty, fusty, musty old bachelor,' who lacks that 'company' which Misery is said to love.

He will also have to sleep at night in fusty rooms, which are often without beds, and are almost invariably teeming with insects.

And she grubs away at perfectly uncongenial work, and lives with this fusty old mother in a fusty little lodging-house.

There was a fusty little tavern down the street, full of laughing soldiers.

We should have insisted on your father's staying with us instead of allowing him to fly back to his fusty, musty old volumes.

Thus (wishing each man to leave inquiring whom I am, and learn to know himself) I take a solemn congee of this fusty world.

For I wished to be alone and knew that I had little chance of solitude outside of that somewhat fusty couch.

Very likely it would be an old, old book, some fusty old thing that no one else would dream of reading.

Why should I sell myself to a man I care nothing about, just because you want a musty, fusty old corpse?