Word Meaning

Meaning of "fustian" and the crossword clue

- Rough cloth; grandiloquent but empty speech
- A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
- An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
- Made of fustian.
- Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.