E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. | | Fustian. | | Stuff, bombast, pretentious words. Properly, a sort of cotton velvet. (French, futaine; Spanish, fustan, from Fustat in Egypt, where the cloth was first made.) (See BOMBAST; CAMELOT.) | 1 | | Discourse fustian with ones own shadow.Shakespeare: Othello, ii. 3. |
| | Some scurvy quaint collection of fustian phrases, and uplandish words.Heywood: Faire Maide of the Exchange, ii. 2. |
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