Fustian
['fʌstɪən]
Definition
(n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
(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.
(a.) Made of fustian.
(a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bombast, nonsense, rant, rhodomontade, inflated style, swelling or pompous phraseology.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BOMBAST]
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Definition
n. a kind of coarse twilled cotton fabric including moleskin velveteen corduroy &c.: a pompous and unnatural style of writing or speaking: bombast: a liquor made of white wine with yolk of eggs lemon spices &c.—adj. made of fustian: bombastic.—v.i. Fust′ianise (Holmes) to write bombastically.—n. Fust′ianist one who writes bombast.
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Examples
- He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock-marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Rant and fustian! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And for all he said he'd got a confidential situation, he was dressed in fustian just like a working-man. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And Mrs. Pryor smiled sceptically at the na?ve notion of that rough-handed, rough-headed, fustian-clad clown having fine feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Bess, poor lass, had a little stock under her pillow, ready to slip into my hand, last moment, and Mary is fustian-cutting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I dunnut knaw that there's mich need, for all a body is dry (thirsty) in a morning, said the fustian gentleman, rising and doing as requested. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The line is worth a hundred pages of fustian. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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