Meaning of FUSTIAN
| Pronunciation: | | 'fuschun
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- [n] a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
- [n] pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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| | Synonyms: | | blah, bombast, claptrap, rant |
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| | See Also: | | cloth, fabric, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, material, rhetoric, textile | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, bombastic, bombastry, claptrap, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, 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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