LekhoriLekhoriMoldy or musty.
Stale-smelling or stuffy.
I rather vvonder vvhat Charms a VVoman of any Spirit can fancy in a Nunnery, in vvatching, vvorking, praying, and ſometimes, I am afraid, vviſhing for other Company than that of an old fuſty Friar— […]
Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
In contrast to exploitation or suppression or even alienation, involution is presented as part of the natural order of things—like bad weather. You can’t point fingers at an abstraction or rally against a fusty term from an anthropology text.
From Old French fust (“wood”) (modern French fût (“cask”)), from Latin fūstis (“a cudgel”). Compare Scots foosty.
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