moth-eaten
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Edith Wharton is a moth-eaten gown in the musty attic of American literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
We’re more taken by the scenes in which her father, Stellan Skarsgård’s faded filmmaker Gustav, dusts off his moth-eaten charisma to charm Elle Fanning’s Hollywood starlet into doing his new project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
The curtain your brother is hiding behind is moth-eaten and flimsy.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
After about four hours, he found his name on the last page of a moth-eaten book.
From BBC ● May 29, 2023
Sitting rooms spill over with tipsy sofas and moth-eaten covers, and the furniture is piled high with old-fashioned post-balloons, buckets, house-lanterns, drapery, older télétropes, bolts of lace, half-burned candles, broken spyglasses, ear-trumpets, and more.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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