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n. A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and flax.

n. Any of several thick twilled cotton fabrics, such as corduroy, having a short nap.

n. Pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.

adj. Made of or as if of fustian: "[He] disliked the heavy, fustian ... and brocaded decor of Soviet officialdom” ( Frederick Forsyth).

adj. Pompous, bombastic, and ranting: "Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony” ( Joseph Heller).

n. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff

n. A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen

n. Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech

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.

adj. Made of fustian.

adj. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic.

n. Formerly, a stout cloth, supposed to have been of cotton or cotton and flax.

n. In present use, a stout twilled cotton fabric, especially that which has a short nap, variously called corduroy, moleskin, beaverteen, velveteen, thickset, etc., according to the way in which it is finished. See pillow.

n. An inflated or turgid style of speaking or writing, characterized by the use of high-sounding phrases and exaggerated metaphors, and running into hyperbole and rant; empty phrasing.

n. A potation composed of the yolks of eggs, white wine or other liquor, lemon, and spices.

n. Synonyms Turgidness, Rant, etc. See bombast.

Made of fustian.

Pompous in style; ridiculously tumid; bombastic.

n. a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing

"Others who have a great deal of fire, but have not excellent organs, feel the fore-mentioned motions, without the extraordinary hints; and these we call fustian writers. '"

cloth    fabric    material    textile    grandiosity    rhetoric    grandiloquence    ornateness    magniloquence   

bombast    pompous    inflated    bombastic    lexiphanic    magniloquent   

balderdash    flummery    velveteen    broadcloth    denim    serge    sheepskin    buckskin    cassimere    dungarees