About The Word Fustian
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Fustian
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What's The Definition Of Fustian?
[n] a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
[n] pompous or pretentious talk or writing Synonyms | Synonyms for Fustian: blah | bombast | claptrap | rant Related Terms | Find terms related to Fustian: absurdity | amphigory | babble | babblement | balderdash | bibble-babble | blabber | blather | bombast | bombastic | bombastry | claptrap | double-talk | drivel | drool | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | flatulent | flummery | folderol | fudge | gabble | galimatias | gammon | gassy | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | gobbledygook | good-for-nothing | highfalutin | hocus-pocus | hot air | humbug | inflated | jabber | jargon | meaningless | mouthy | mumbo jumbo | narrishkeit | niaiserie | nonsense | pack of nonsense | palaver | prate | prattle | purposeless | rant | rigamarole | rigmarole | rodomontade | rubbish | skimble-skamble | stuff and nonsense | stultiloquence | swollen | trash | trumpery | tumescent | tumid | turgescent | turgid | twaddle | twattle | twiddle-twaddle | unpurposed | useless | vaporing | waffling | windy | worthless See Also | cloth | fabric | grandiloquence | grandiosity | magniloquence | material | rhetoric | textile Fustian In Webster's Dictionary \Fus"tian\, n. [OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F.
futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr.
fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fust[=a]t, 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. |
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