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fustian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blah, bombast, claptrap, rant |
| Type of | magniloquence, rhetoric, ornateness, grandiloquence, grandiosity |
Examples of fustian
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In 1411 Palazzo Cittanova become the seat of the University of fustian merchants.
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This second wave of settlers wove fustian, a rough cloth made of linen and cotton.
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The town's growth was given further impetus in 1620 with the start of fustian weaving.
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The society dealt first mostly in the domestic linen and fustian.
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Under less practiced hands, this would be mere fustian.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Before him food television was humdrum, beige and fustian.
From the guardian.co.uk
Micawber because of his penchant for both profit and fustian.
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Even while their popularity was at its height, critics began to relegate their style to a fustian past.
From the boston.com
Fustian is a term for a variety of heavy twilled wovencottonfabrics, chiefly prepared for menswear.
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- Bombast: pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
- Fustian (also called bombast) is a term for a variety of heavy woven, mostly cotton fabrics, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. ...
- 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
- A napped fabric of a mixture of linen and cotton or wool, or a blanket made of such material. [The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary]
- Strong, hard-wearing cloth combining a linen warp and cotton weft. First made in Egypt about 200ad, spreading across Europe and probably brought to Britain by migrant workers. Normally used for workers clothes but, by cutting the weft, French workers produced Cord du Roi, or corduroy.
- Pretentious and banal (writing or speech)
- A fabric that was made up of forty percent linen and sixty percent cotton, which was usually lightly brushed on one side and used predominantly for clothing, e.g., "John's favorite shirt was his white fustian work shirt."
- Collective term for a group of coarse, usually patterned fabrics woven from wool or cotton/wool.
