shabby
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Discovery is certainly the operative word when exploring The Shabby French Market, a Parisian-style arcade filled with antiques, heirloom jewelry and pretty much every curio one can imagine.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2023
He has now told the story in a book called Downton Shabby.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2022
Shabby chic surface treatments, with simulated patina and distress marks, are appearing on woodwork newly subsumed by pastel pigments, and blues and oranges in blazing sheens are being striped on wood side by side.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021
Shabby infrastructure, desolate streets and prison-like houses contrast with the shiny shopping malls of El Paso, tantalizingly visible through the fence that marks the world's only land border between a rich and a developing nation.
From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2010
“That’s a handsome coat. Shabby but a good cut. You’re a tailor’s son, aren’t you?”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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