单词 | fustian |
释义 | fustian (once / 9673 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY fustian: fustians USAGE EXAMPLESYossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony, and by Milo’s crushing bereavement. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) "It rather depends whether you're clad in the fustian of Victorian habit or you embrace the common ground with our European cousins," he says. BBC(Mar 11, 2014) Mantel uses her own words – there is no fustian in the prose – yet all the observations are her character's. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2012) 1 n a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap 2Hyper cloth, fabric, material, textile artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers n pompous or pretentious talk or writing Syn|Hyper blah, bombast, claptrap, rant grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation |
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