Usually means: Thick, durable fabric; pompous speech.
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  1. fustian: Merriam-Webster
  2. fustian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fustian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fustian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fustian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fustian, fustian: Wordnik
  7. fustian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fustian: Wiktionary
  9. fustian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fustian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fustian: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fustian, fustian: Dictionary.com
  13. fustian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Fustian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fustian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fustian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fustian: Rhymezone
  18. Fustian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fustian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fustian: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fustian: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. fustian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fustian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Fustian: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. fustian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fustian: Legal dictionary

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  1. fustian: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fustian, fustian: A Word A Day
  2. fustian: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fustian: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Textile (No longer online)

(Note: See fustians as well.)

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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.
noun:  A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.
noun:  (figuratively) Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
noun:  (alcoholic beverages, archaic) 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.
adjective:  Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).
adjective:  Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also (obsolete) using incoherent or unintelligible language.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Imaginary; invented.
adjective:  Useless; worthless.

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