Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
1 I brought with me some sweets, and wore a threadbare fustian suit.
2 The regal ermine and the murderer's fustian alike obtain their enviable niche.
3 It is true, my coat is fustian , and my whole accoutrement plebeian.
4 They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave.
5 You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
6 Even in fustian garments nobility hides with difficulty from keen and suspicious eyes.
7 There is nothing debasing in a smock-frock or a fustian jacket.
8 For I heartily despised all that fustian trumpery of the age.
9 Think of that, you in fustian jackets who grumble after meat.
10 There I disrobed, and resumed my check shirt, and trowsers, and fustian coat.
11 Her most commendable skill is to make her husband's fustian bear her velvet.
12 How different from their easy, natural appearance in their every-day fustian !
13 They have dressed it in coarse fustian , in convict clothes.
14 On the other hand, how he despised fustian and bombast.
15 The person I addressed was a tall young man, with a fustian frock coat.
16 I read no "Night Thoughts " - no fustian about churchyards-nobugaboo tales-such as this.
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