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Stuff, bombast, pretentious words. Properly, a sort of cotton velvet. (French, futaine; Spanish, fustan, from Fustat in Egypt, where the cloth was first made.) (See Bombast; Camelot.)
?Discourse fustian with one's own shadow.? -
?Some scurvy quaint collection of fustian phrases, and uplandish words.? ?Heywood: Faire Maide of the Exchange, ii. 2.
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