Today's Word "fustian"
Coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff
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fustian \FUHS-chuhn\ (noun) - 1 : A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2 : An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language.
(adjective) - 1 : Made of fustian. 2 : Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.
"Even in fustian garments nobility hides with difficulty from keen and suspicious eyes." -- Percy J. Brebner, 'The Light That Lures'
Fustian derives from Old French fustaigne, from Medieval Latin fustaneum, but its precise roots beyond that point are uncertain.
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