fustiann.adj.
/ˈfʌstɪən/, U.S. /ˈfəstʃən/ A. n.
1. † b. A blanket made of this material. Obsolete.† c. fustian of Naples (also fustian in Naples: an expensive, high-quality fustian imported from Naples. Cf. fustianapes n. Obsolete.
a. Formerly, a kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. Now, a thick, twilled, cotton cloth with a short pile or nap, usually dyed of an olive, leaden, or other dark colour.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > fustian
fustianc1200
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Ðe meshakele of medeme fustane [or perh. fustani].
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 75 Of Fustian he wered a gypon.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 279 His clothinge was blakke fustyan with bendes on the sleues.
1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 16 ij yerdes of white fustyam for sokkes for the Quene.
1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 162 ij blanketts of fustheyn.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 42 Where's the Cooke..the seruingmen in their new fustian . View more context for this quotation
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxix. 149 Commonly I used..some pieces of fustions, cutting them of two fingers breadth.
1696 J. F. Merchant's Ware-house 8 Dimetty..which is called Pillus Fustian, is of great use to put Feathers in for Pillows.
1860 All Year Round 25 Feb. 418 Fustian and corduroy that was neither sound nor fragrant.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket > types of blanket
mantlec1300
fustian1424
Witney1716
rose blanket1759
under-blanket1819
Afghan1850
bluey1886
receiving blanket1891
electric blanket1893
Wagga rug1900
suggan1907
overblanket1970
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 I wull he haue to þe oone bed a peyre fustyans.
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 922 Fustian and shetis clene by sight and sans ye tast.
in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 121 Then shall the yeoman of the stuffe take a fustian..& caste it upon the bedd..& the sheete likewise..then lay on the other sheete..then lay on the over fustian above.
1500 Inv. in Ann. Reg. (1768) 134 A paire of old Fustians.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > fustian > types of
fustian of Naples1463
holmes fustian1474
jean1567
cantoon1688
thick-set1756
moleskin1792
pillow1839
1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §20. m. 6 That noo man..use nor were in aray for his body..eny fustian, bustian nor fustian of Napuls.
1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 207 A new cusshion of fustian in naples.
2.
a. figurative. Inflated, turgid, or inappropriately lofty language; speech or writing composed of high-sounding words and phrases; bombast, rant; in early use also †jargon, made-up language, gibberish. For the development of sense cf. bombast n.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon
language1502
term of art1570
fustiana1593
jargoning1623
jargon1651
speciality1657
lingo1659
cant1684
linguaa1734
patois1790
slang1801
shibboleth1829
glim-glibber1844
argot1860
gammy1864
patter1875
stagese1876
vernacular1876
palaver1909
babble1930
buzzword1946
in word1964
rabbit1976
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]
jargon1340
gibberishc1557
fustiana1593
hibber-gibber1593
rabble?1593
gabbling1599
rantum-scantum1599
ribble-rabble1601
gabble1602
High Dutch1602
Greek1603
baragouin1614
galimatias1653
riddle-me-ree1678
clink-clank1679
Hebrew1705
alieniloquy1727
jabber1735
mumbo-jumbo1738
gibbering1786
rigmarole1809
gibber1832
rigmarolery1833
Babelism1834
jargoning1837
barrikin1851
abracadabra1867
double Dutch1876
jabberwock1902
jabberwocky1908
jibber-jabber1922
mumbo-jumbery1923
mumbo1931
double-talk1938
garbology1944
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > bombast
thundering1564
bombast1589
fustiana1593
taratantara1599
bombard-phrasea1637
heroics1638
bombacea1661
rant1662
Lexiphanicism1767
streperosity1772
puff1821
taffeta1821
polyphloisboioism1823
flabbergast1831
highfalutin1847
highfalutination1858
carmagnole1860
Barnumism1862
ballyhoo1901
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B4 Wag. Let thy left eye be diametarily fixt vpon my right heele, with quasi vestigias nostras insistere. Clown. God forgiue me, he speakes Dutch fustian.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. i. sig. Hivv Pr'y thee let's talke Fustian a little and gull 'hem: make 'hem beleeue we are great Schollers. View more context for this quotation
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 391 If hee can..weare his cloaths in fashion,..talke bigge fustian.
1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 40 With Humble Service, and such other Fustian.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar Ded. sig. A3 I am much deceiv'd if this be not abominable fustian, that is, thoughts and words ill sorted, and without the least relation to each other.
1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 187 And he, whose Fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but Prose run mad.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1848) I. viii. 111 Glover..uttered a speech in most heroic fustian.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 197 They flounder about between fustian in expression, and bathos in sentiment.
1884 Fortn. Rev. June 838 It was all nonsense, and the basest kind of political fustian.
b. occasionally Clap-trap.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun]
flash1605
sniffling1653
canting1659
cant1710
galbanum1764
gas1793
blarney1796
gammon1805
slum1812
claptrap1819
flam1825
glittering generality1849
bull's wool1850
eyewash1857
bunkum1862
hot air1873
kid1874
fustian1880
flubdub1888
bull1914
oil1917
blah1918
drip1919
piss and wind1922
banana-oil1927
flannel1927
crud1943
old talk1956
ole talk1964
okey-doke1969
yada yada1991
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxiii. 230 Sensible Englishmen..looked upon the whole exhibition as fustian.
3. (See quot. 1832.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > nog
caudle ferrya1325
hen's milk1790
egg-hot1796
rumfustian1824
eggnog1825
egg flip1832
fustian1832
Tom and Jerry1840
nog1851
1832 W. Hone Year Bk. 62 Rum fustian is a ‘night-cap’, made precisely in the same way [as egg-flip].
B. adj.† 4. Scottish ? Coarse, plain, homely. Obsolete. rare.
1. figurative.1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 39 Botching in such frize iestes vppon fustion earnest.1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 158 I could smile at a frise iest, when the good man would be pleasurable; and laugh at fustion earnest, when the merry man would be surly.1885 E. W. Lightner in Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/1 To gain some individuality which will remove the impression that it is a fustian counter~part of a genuine and admirable fabric.
a. [attributive use of the noun.] Made of fustian.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [adjective] > other
fustian1537
calico1612
Surat1643
corduroy1789
velveteen1824
blue jean1826
dungaree1836
blue jeans1871
percale1880
Aertex1896
1537 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 128 Item I geve to Wylliam Bolor my fosten doblett.
1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 144 A paier of fustian blankets.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Mm6 For my clothes being but a threed-bare fustian case were so meane.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 498. ⁋3 A lively young fellow in a fustian jacket.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxiv. 156 For all my bit of a fustian frock..I have more dust in my fob, than all these powdered sparks put together.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. 538 The plain fustian jacket used by English sportsmen.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxii He wore a plain fustian cloak.
b. dialect. (See quot. 1741, and cf. fustiany adj.)
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1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May iv. 66 There are four several Sorts [of Marl], viz.—The Fustian, the Cowshit, the Black-steel, and the Shale: The Fustian Sort is an Earth composed of a fat Loam and Sand, of a reddish Colour.
2. † b. Hence of a writer or speaker. Obsolete.† c. fustian fume: a great display of anger. So fustian anger. Obsolete.
a. Of language: Of the nature of fustian; ridiculously lofty in expression; bombastic, high-flown, inflated, pompous. †Also, belonging to cant or made-up jargon.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > of language
windya1382
wide1574
fustian1592
high-flown1632
tall1670
screamy1882
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
embossed1578
puffed1587
bombasted1589
fustian1592
puffya1594
full-mouthed1594
orificial1594
gouty1595
swelling1597
mouth-filling1598
taffeta1598
bombast1601
tiptoe-strouting1602
turgidous1602
swollen1605
dropsieda1616
exsufflicatea1616
turgent1621
ampullous1622
tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
blustered1638
tumid1648
bombastical1649
ranting1650
inflated1652
tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D3 Then comes he out with his fustian eloquence.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Monélle, a roguish or fustian word, a word in pedlers French, signifying wenches.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. ii. sig. I2v Haue 'hem vp and shew 'hem Some Fustian Booke, or the Darke Glasse. View more context for this quotation
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Premon. The fustian termes, vsed by too many who study rather to bee heard speake, than to vnderstand themselves.
1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. Fustian Language, Barra~goüin; la lingua furbesca; Jerigonça.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vii. 329 The Queen..writ a Letter to the Duke..in a fustian style.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 363 Notwithstanding the fustian elogiums bestowed upon them by the Romish Missionaries.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 318 Pope, after censuring the haste, negligence, and fustian language of Chapman.
1884 J. Sharman Cursory Hist. Swearing ii. 26 The fustian ornament of somewhat spirited talk.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic > using bombastic style
mouthy1589
fustian1600
mouthing1627
bombastic1727
ranting1771
bloviating1851
telegraphese1881
sophomoric1891
16001 [see sense B. 3a].
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 60 Let Fustian Poets with their Stuff be gone.
1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. x. 205 Ridiculing the false pomp of fustian writers.
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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger
wratha1200
wrethea1400
hatelc1400
angerc1425
braida1450
fumea1529
passion1530
fustian fume1553
ruff1567
pelt1573
spleen1590
blaze1597
huff1599
blustera1616
dog-flawa1625
overboiling1767
explosion1769
squall1807
blowout1825
flare-up1837
fit1841
bust-up1842
wax1854
Scot1859
pelter1861
ructions1862
performance1864
outfling1865
rise1877
detonation1878
flare-out1879
bait1882
paddy1894
paddywhack1899
wingding1927
wing-dinger1933
eppie1987
1553 J. Bale Vocacyon 30 b The Treasurer, beynge in hys fustene fumes, stoughtely demaunded a determinate answere.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 With fumimg [sic] fustian anger.
1629 L. Owen Speculum Iesuiticum (new ed.) 3 Vpon this the Monke in a Spanish fustian-fume, cryed out.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 173 The Chanter netled heard in fustian fume Rejoyning Girard thus sawcily presume.
3. † b. ‘Made up’, imaginary. Obsolete.
a. Worthless, sorry, pretentious.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective]
streiche?a1513
fustian1523
nipping1568
fashionative1584
affected1598
affectate1599
affecting1600
snufflinga1640
whalebone1801
stiltish1824
stilty1845
posturing1851
greenery-yallery1881
mee-mawing1886
meemaw1898
faisandé1912
twee1956
nerdy1960
pseud1962
pseudo1964
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial
frivol1492
fustian1523
triflinga1538
tirlery1546
trumpery1576
mockado1577
skipjack1597
flashy1598
trifle1607
fripperya1625
bagatelle1637
fingle-fangled1651
tawdry1696
sauntering1726
gimcrack1751
folderol1820
tin1886
shicec1890
cotton candy1951
candyfloss1957
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1206 This fustian maistres and this giggishe gase.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 186 Thrust him down staires, I cannot indure such a fustian rascall. View more context for this quotation
1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll i. sig. B1 A fustie Potticarie, euer at hand with his fustian drugges.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 108 Now what a selfe Losungeous fellow hath this fustian companion proved.
1861 K. H. Digby Chapel St. John (1863) 325 The fustian rascal and his poor lack-linen mate.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized
presenta1393
conceivedc1425
imaginate1533
conceited1543
imaginedc1550
surmised1578
coined1582
brain-spun1595
brain-born1596
fustian1601
brain-bred1606
humoured1613
imaged1718
visual1817
visualized1817
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Praeludium sig. A2v The Scene, Gargaphia: which I do vehemently suspect for some Fustian Countrey. View more context for this quotation
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > homely or rustic
homelya1387
uplandisha1387
hamald?a1400
rustical1483
agrestc1550
fustianc1550
homespun1590
russet1598
agrestic1617
raplocha1628
Adamitic1656
russet-coated1683
rustic1738
turnipy1792
countrified1875
corny1932
bakya1960
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Thai hed na breyd bot ry caikis and fustean skonnis maid of flour.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
fustian-maker n.
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1704 London Gaz. No. 3987/4 Robert Dunn, of Bolton in Le Moors..Fustian-maker.
b.
fustian-clad adj.
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1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 54 Fustian clad men.
fustian-suited adj.
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1891 Daily News 26 Dec. 5/5 A gardener..assisted by one of his fustian-suited fellows, is staking and pruning a tree.
C2. † fustian-man n. Obsolete a fustian-maker.
fustian-cutter n. one who performs this.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing > shearing fustian > one who
fustian-cutter1884
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Fustian cutter, one who finishes off fustian by cutting it to a sort of velvetty pile.
fustian-cutting n. the action or process of cutting the surface-threads of weft of fustian.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing > shearing fustian
fustian-cutting1855
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xvii. 213 ‘Where is your sister?’ ‘Gone fustian-cutting.’
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > manufacture of fabric from specific materials > one who manufactures other fabrics
velvet-maker1530
velvet-weaver1530
silkman1553
rash-maker1590
fustian-man1720
1720 London Gaz. No. 5909/8 William Nabbs, late of Hallifax, Fustianman.
fustian-picker n. a workman who dresses fustian.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > teaselling and shearing > one who dresses fustion
fustian-picker1865
1865 Public Opinion 21 Jan. 55/1 If the makers of lucifer-matches are not henceforth to be poisoned..nor fustian-pickers to be rendered deformed by bad conditions of work.
Derivatives
ˈfustianed adj. clothed in fustian.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing specific material
woolwardc1315
under line (occasionally in line)c1330
fox-furred1592
furred1592
tuftaffeta1598
tissued?16..
satin1603
silk1603
russet1604
tuftaffety1612
plush1615
sericated1623
sheepskinned1628
silken1640
lawny1647
plushed1650
satined1652
harden1654
sackclotheda1656
bearskinned1694
well-furred?1707
furry1717
brocaded1767
flannelled1784
lawned1798
buckskinned1829
corduroyed1832
silked1837
silkened1841
friezy1849
fustianed1849
velveted1850
buffed1863
buckramed1880
craped1880
crapy1891
velveteened1896
mohaired1914
tweeded1921
tweedy1923
leather1961
1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy 62 The fustianed keeper winked at the gorgeous Roman warrior.
1883 T. Hardy Three Strangers in Longman's Mag. Mar. 572 Hob-nailed and fustianed peasantry.
ˈfustianist n. one who writes fustian.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > one who uses
fustianist1642
Lexiphanes1767
spread-eagleist1877
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 45 Preferring the gay rankness: of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any moderne fustianist, before the native Latinisms of Cicero.
ˈfustianize v. (intransitive) to write fustian.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be bombastic (of language) > use bombastic language
thunder1575
rant1602
mouth1604
rant1649
paratragediate1656
bemouth1799
fustianize1830
heroize1838
1830 O. W. Holmes Poet's Lot 4 To get a ring, or some such thing, And fustianize upon it.
ˈfustiany adj. dialect (see quot., and cf. B. 1b).
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1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Fustiany, applied to sand with a good deal of earth (the colour of fustian) in it, that prevents its being used for mortar.
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