Definition of Fustean
Fus"tian (?), n. [OE. fustan,
fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It.
fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr.
fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from
Fustāt, 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
FUSTIAN. Bombast language. Red fustian; port wine.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- Pompous or pretentious speech or writing
- A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 568.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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