Crossword-Solution: FUSTINESS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Before you go the _fusuma_ are slidden back, and what was your room becomes part of a great, open, matted space—an arrangement which effectually prevents fustiness.

Sunshine through a landing window illumined the dust floating thickly about the staircase and heated the familiar blend of lodging-house smells--the closeness of small rooms that are never cleansed, the dry rot of wall-paper, plaster, and old wood, the fustiness of clogged carpets trodden thin, the ever-rising vapours from a sluttish kitchen.

The cul de sac itself reeked of dirt and fustiness, as if it had not been cleaned or ventilated for years.

They were graciously received, and had the honor of meeting there his Mustiness the Alcalde, and his Fustiness the Corregidor; whose conversation was surely improving, but not equally brilliant.

The narrowness and fustiness of the Rue aux Fevres certainly hinder you from spending much time in examining the houses but there are two which deserve a few minutes’ individual attention.