mustiness

It smelled — or did it taste? — like a deep, woody mustiness, a kind of fragranced shade, the tantalizing cool of a covered bazaar.

Conversely, pet funk, mustiness, and unwashed linen are dead giveaways of a space that needs attention.

Death also permeates the game and is as strong as a perceived stench of mustiness and rot.

In Siberia, you’ll find people who are stroganina connoisseurs, critiquing the mustiness of frozen whitefish from smaller lakes or praising the clean leanness of the catch from the Gulf of Ob.

Lily pulls open yet another large wooden door, and this time we slip into cool blackness and the sweet smell of burning candles, mustiness, and age.