The word for today is…
fusty (adjective):
1 British : impaired by age or dampness : mouldy
2: saturated with dust and stale odors : musty
3: rigidly old-fashioned or reactionary
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Evidence suggests that fusty comes from the Middle English noun foist, meaning “wine cask,” which in turn traces back to the Medieval Latin word fustis, meaning “tree trunk” or “wood.” Fusty itself originally described wine that had gone stale from sitting in the cask too long; fusty literally meant that the wine had the “taste of the cask.” Eventually, fusty was used across the culinary universe for any stale food, and especially for damp or mouldy food. Those damp and mouldy connotations later led fusty to be applied to musty places, and later still to anything that had lost its freshness and interest—that is, to anything old-fashioned.
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