Fustian

Definition of Fustian

Fus´tian

n.	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.
a.	1.	Made of fustian.
	2.	Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

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