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• n  pompous or pretentious talk or writing
• n  a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

• And they spoke the King's English: King James', with an assist from any screenwriter willing to gussy up his fustian.
• They are full of the fustian of Romanticism, but one must remember that it was a fustian that he himself had largely created through his own writings, years before.
• Amid calls for radical reform of Britain's fustian political system, the next Parliament is already guaranteed to have a fresh face, with droves of MPs vowing not to run at the .

• bombast
• rant
• claptrap
• blah