Fustian

Noun

 * 1) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff
 * 2) A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen
 * 3) Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech

Synonyms

 * lexiphanic, magniloquent

Quotations

 * 1882, Fustian, of which I have found only one entry before 1401, occurs frequently in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It appears to have been a ribbed cloth. &mdash; James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 568.

Thesaurus
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