1. fustian - Noun
2. fustian - Adjective
A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
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.
Made of fustian.
Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhere bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves. Thomas Moore
The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil. Isaac Taylor