fustian

How To Use fustian In A Sentence

• Nearly a thousand horse-packs of Yorkshire cloths, such as kerseys, fustians, and pennistons, together with Manchester goods, took up one side and a half of the Duddery, and it was not uncommon to hear that 100,000 pounds worth of woollen manufactures had been sold there in less than one week's time. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
• It reminds a reader that, unlike the surrounding fustian, this little piece of language is to be treated with reflective care.
• Why should he deny himself his velvet? it is but a kind of fustian which costs him eighteenpence a yard. The Newcomes
• If you do, you are miles away from my opinion, for I hold that Homer no more dreamed of all this allegorical fustian than Ovid in his Metamorphoses dreamed of the Gospel.
• The structures it is true tend a little too much of what may be termed buckram and fustian styles; indeed there is scarcely a form or a detail which an architect would care to jot down in his note-book. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
• And he showed them the object he had tucked into the belt that kept his robes of rough brown fustian from flapping in the breeze.
• You shall find that of Aristotle true, nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae, they have a worm as well as others; you shall find a fantastical strain, a fustian, a bombast, a vainglorious humour, an affected style, &c., like a prominent thread in an uneven woven cloth, run parallel throughout their works. Anatomy of Melancholy
• This unidentified artist specialized in depictions of Italian peasants wearing jackets, aprons and dresses made from what was then called "genes," fustian cotton named after its assumed city of origin in Genoa, Italy. Forever in Blue Jeans
• Traditional dress, however we define it, is currently pretty rare, though film-makers, no doubt because of the continuing popularity of Roman epics, reached for their togas when Charlton Heston appeared in fustian versions of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus – review
• Some wore velvet jackets and fustian trousers.