1) Blah 2) Bombast 3) British clothing 4) Claptrap 5) Grandiloquence 6) Grandiosity 7) High-sounding nonsense 8) Magniloquence 9) Rant 10) Rhetoric 11) Woven fabric
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1) Blah 2) Bombast 3) Claptrap 4) Rant
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- pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
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Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. == History and use...
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coarse twilled cotton
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pretentious writing or speech; inflated or nonsensical language
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• (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. • (a.) Made of fustian. • (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 though...
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The name for various textiles woven in a similar way to velvet with a short piled surface. They include a coarse material of cotton and flax used for bed-hangings and clothes in medieval Europe, a wool fabric made using the same weaving technique in the 14thC, and from the 16th to 19th centuries, coarse twilled cotton cloth, velveteen and corduroy
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fabric originally made by weaving two sets of cotton wefts, or fillings, on a linen warp, popular during the European Middle Ages. The word has come ...
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Fus'tian adjective 1. Made of fustian.
2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as,
fustian history.
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Fus'tian noun [ Middle English
fustan ,
fustian , Old French
fustaine , French
futaine , Italian
fustagno , from Late Latin
fustaneum ,
fustanum ; confer Pr.
fustani , Spanish
fustan . So called from
Fustāt , i. e., Cairo...
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Fustian is a cotton or mixed linen and cotton fabric with a pile like that of velvet but shorter. It includes corduroy, moleskin, velveteen, etc.
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A coarse cloth of cotton/linen or cotton/wool mixture.
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n] - a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
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bombastry, fustian 1. Bombastic language or composition. 2. Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. In its earliest sense, fustian is 'a fabric made from cotton and linen', but like bombast it, too, is now used to mean 'pretentious speech or writing'. His stated motive is to meet 'the flood of cant, fustian and emotiona...
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strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap.
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noun a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap
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a stout fabric of cotton and flax. · a fabric of stout twilled cotton or of cotton and low-quality wool, with a short nap or pile. · inflated or turgid language in writing or speaking: Fustian can't disguise the author's meager plot.
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