fustian
(noun) a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
(noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fustian (usually uncountable, plural fustians)
A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.
A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen.
Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech.
(archaic) A drink made of white wine with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.
• Faustin, faunist, fiaunts, infaust
Source: Wiktionary
Fus"tian, n. Etym: [OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fustat, i. e., Cairo, where it was made.]
1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.
Fus"tian, a.
1. Made of fustian.
2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
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