1. (n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

2. (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.

3. (a.) Made of fustian.

4. (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

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