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Fustian

Fustian Meaning & Definition
Fustian Definition And Meaning

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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