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That odour and filth which accumulates on things and in places not used.
“Then from the butchers we bought lamb and sheepe.
Beer from the alehouse, and a broome to sweepe
Our cottage, that for want of use was musty,
And most extremely rusty-fusty dusty.”
Taylor: Workes, ii. 24.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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