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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fustian \Fus"tian\, n. [OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F.
     futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr.
     fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fust[=a]t, i. e., Cairo,
     where it was made.]
     1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff,
        including corduroy, velveteen, etc.


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     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.
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              Claudius . . . has run his description into the most
              wretched
              fustian.                              --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fustian \Fus"tian\, a.
     1. Made of fustian.
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     2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as,
        fustian history. --Walpole.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fustian
       n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: {bombast}, {rant},
             {claptrap}, {blah}]
       2: a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "fustian":
     absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
     bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, bombastic, bombastry,
     claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee,
     flatulent, flummery, folderol, fudge, gabble, galimatias, gammon,
     gassy, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook,
     good-for-nothing, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug,
     inflated, jabber, jargon, meaningless, mouthy, mumbo jumbo,
     narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate,
     prattle, purposeless, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade,
     rubbish, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence,
     swollen, trash, trumpery, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid,
     twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, unpurposed, useless, vaporing,
     waffling, windy, worthless
  
  

















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