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fustian
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Definition:1. ranting and pretentious speech/writing (also used as an adjective)2. a thick natural fiber cloth
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A treatise written about fifty years ago by a Welsh gentleman of Cambridge. His name, as I remember, Vaughan, as appears by the answer to it by the learned Dr. Henry More. It is a piece of the most unintelligible fustian that perhaps was ever published in any language.— S. This piece was by the brother of Henry Vaughan, the poet.
Jonathan Swift. A Digression in the Modern Kind (footnote)
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Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony, and by Milo's crushing bereavement.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.263 (1961)
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FACE. What will you do
With these the while?
SUB. Why, have them up, and shew them
Some fustian book, or the dark glass.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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