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   fustian

   /ˈfʌstɪən/

   noun

   • 1. thick, hard-wearing twilled cloth with a short nap, usually dyed in dark colours: "the coarse fustian of prison clothing"
   • 2. pompous or pretentious speech or writing: "a smokescreen of fustian and fantasy"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French fustaigne, from medieval Latin fustaneum, from (pannus) fustaneus ‘cloth from Fostat’, a suburb of Cairo; fustian (sense 2) perhaps from the fact that fustian was sometimes used to cover pillows and cushions, implying that the language was ‘padded’; compare with bombast.

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