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Meanings of fustian in English

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altisonancia

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.

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        Usage of fustian in English
        1
        I brought with me some sweets, and wore a threadbare fustian suit.
        The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
        2
        The regal ermine and the murderer's fustian alike obtain their enviable niche.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841
        3
        It is true, my coat is fustian, and my whole accoutrement plebeian.
        Four Early Pamphlets
        4
        They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave.
        White Ashes
        5
        You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
        The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
        6
        Even in fustian garments nobility hides with difficulty from keen and suspicious eyes.
        The Light That Lures
        7
        There is nothing debasing in a smock-frock or a fustian jacket.
        The Golden Calf
        8
        For I heartily despised all that fustian trumpery of the age.
        Richard Carvel — Volume 05
        9
        Think of that, you in fustian jackets who grumble after meat.
        White Lies
        10
        There I disrobed, and resumed my check shirt, and trowsers, and fustian coat.
        Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
        11
        Her most commendable skill is to make her husband's fustian bear her velvet.
        Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
        12
        How different from their easy, natural appearance in their every-day fustian!
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 / A Magaz...
        13
        They have dressed it in coarse fustian, in convict clothes.
        Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
        14
        On the other hand, how he despised fustian and bombast.
        Adventures in Contentment
        15
        The person I addressed was a tall young man, with a fustian frock coat.
        The Bible in Spain / Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonm...
        16
        I read no "Night Thoughts"-nofustian about churchyards-nobugaboo tales-such as this.
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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