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fustian

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
  2. noun A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
  3. noun Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also , incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
  4. noun Chiefly in rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.
  5. adjective Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
  6. adjective Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also using incoherent or unintelligible language.
  7. adjective Imaginary; invented. Useless; worthless.
  8. adjective Imaginary; invented.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

fustians

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