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    [Noun]  | "fus*tian" | \ ˈfəs-chən \


    1: a strong cotton and linen fabric

    2: a class of cotton fabrics usually having a pile face and twill weave

    3: high-flown or affected writing or speech; broadly : anything high-flown or affected in style

    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English, from Anglo-French fustian, fustayn, from Medieval Latin fustaneum, probably from fustis tree trunk, from Latin, stick, cudgel;

    [Adjective]  | "fustian" 


    1: marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases;


      * e.g., " ... one of those fustian odes to patriotic duty that were so beloved by school teachers "




    [Noun]  | "fustian" 


    1: language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere;


      * e.g., " ... a speech awash in old-fashioned fustian and bereft of all substance "



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