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Word of the Day for Friday April 7, 2006
fustian \FUHS-chuhn\, noun: 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language.
adjective: 1. Made of fustian. 2. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.
Don't squander the court's patience puffing your cheeks up on stately bombast and lofty fustian. Speak plainly! -- Richard Dooling, [1]Brain Storm
His stated motive is to meet "the flood of cant, fustian and emotional nonsense which pollutes the intellectual atmosphere." -- Walter H. Waggoner, "Joseph W. Bishop Jr., Law Professor and Author", [2]New York Times, May 21, 1985
It would take a stout heart to read through all the loyal effusions and fustian birthday odes of the 18th-century laureates -- Nahum Tate, Colley Cibber and the rest. -- John Gross, "In Search of a Laureate: Making Book on Britain's Next Official Poet", [3]New York Times, July 15, 1984 _________________________________________________________
Fustian derives from Old French fustaigne, from Medieval Latin fustaneum, but its precise roots beyond that point are uncertain.
References
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