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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Fustian

/(fŭs"chan; 106)/ · Fus·tian · IPA /ˈfʌs.t͡ʃən/
01 n. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
  1. 1.
    A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
  2. 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.
02 a. Made of fustian.
  1. 1.
    Made of fustian.
  2. 2.
    Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.