1. a thick, durable cotton fabric with a short nap
Usage: historical
2. pompous or pretentious speech or writing

1. pompous or pretentious in language

Examples

• The old chair was upholstered in fustian fabric.
• His speech was full of fustian phrases that impressed no one.
• The politician’s fustian rhetoric failed to convince the voters.
• She dismissed his argument as mere fustian.
• The professor’s fustian writing style made the textbook difficult to read.
• Workers in the 18th century often wore clothes made of fustian.
• The critic called the novel’s dialogue fustian and overwrought.