mildewed

For me to even open an envelope meant a trip to my stepmother’s house, where the precious cache was moldering in a mildewed basement.

In a poignant episode, the narrator visits the Nigerian National Museum in the Onikan neighborhood and finds the exhibits meager, the sculptures and plaques “caked in dust” and “badly mildewed.”

In an interview last summer, he sat on the mildewed porch of a house crowded with other migrant children.

Items can be in any condition except wet, mildewed or contaminated with hazardous materials.

Today, Vicksburg is a destination for faux steamboats and tour buses half-filled with aging Civil War buffs and gamblers drawn to its storied battleground and mildewed casinos.