It is not, as you might assume, a costume novel of eighteenth-century tushery. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
By some singular discretion Mr. HEWLETT has chosen to eschew the least approach to Wardour-Street idiom, and this gives the narrative a simplicity, a sanity and a vivid sense of reality which are extraordinarily more effective than the goodliest tushery, of which flamboyant art Mr. HEWLETT is no mean master. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
Should he err on one side, he is in the bogs of tushery: on the other, he commits that fault of self-conscious, over-daring modernization, of which Mr. Shaw has been so guilty. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work] Reference
This tale of the adventures of a knight and a lady in the days when HENRY II. sat on the throne of England, and his son RICHARD princed it in Angoulême, is told with an air that lifts it out of tushery into romance. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916] Reference
There will also be no tushery. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work] Reference
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