frowze

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All planks and sand, and tubs of mortar, now; you have to half break your neck in getting up there; and when it is settled it will be -- such a frowze of common people!

Real Folks 1865
The old frowze of warm, water-laden nimbus was there; everything looked damp and dank, lacking sweetness and sightliness; the air wanted clearing, the ground cleaning, and the sea washing.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855