FUSTIAN

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

2.
n.

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.

3.
a.

Made of fustian.

4.
a.

Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.

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