mustiness
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It smelled — or did it taste? — like a deep, woody mustiness, a kind of fragranced shade, the tantalizing cool of a covered bazaar.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
By which he means that outside theater circles, a mustiness had crept into the show business zeitgeist, a sense of the musical becoming uncool, out of step.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
Instead of damp mustiness, it smells of, well, tourists.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2016
The chemical compound is caused by a natural fungus in cork that takes only the smallest trace to impart an overpowering mustiness in wines, likened to everything from a wet pooch to sweaty gym socks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2014
On the campus, students emerged from the mustiness of Suzzallo Library and the dankness of their rented rooms, blinked warily, and looked about for a place to stretch out on a patch of grass.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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