| 单词 | fustian |
| 释义 | fustian /fus"cheuhn/, n. 1. a stout fabric of cotton and flax. 2. a fabric of stout twilled cotton or of cotton and low-quality wool, with a short nap or pile. 3. inflated or turgid language in writing or speaking: Fustian can't disguise the author's meager plot. adj. 4. made of fustian: a fustian coat; fustian bed linen. 5. pompous or bombastic, as language: fustian melodrama. 6. worthless; cheap: fustian knaves and dupes. [1150-1200; ME < OF fustaigne < ML fustaneum, perh. a deriv. of L fustis stick, cudgel (LL: trunk; cf. FUSTY), if a trans. of L xylinus, Gk (Septuagint) xýlina lína cotton, lit., linen from wood; Fostat, a suburb of Cairo, has also been proposed as the source of fustaneum] Syn. 3. bombast, rant, claptrap. |
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