Word Meaning

fustian definition and meaning

n. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
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.
a. Made of fustian.
a. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

Crossword clues for fustian

- Rough cloth; grandiloquent but empty speech