fustian

• They shrink from the rough fustian, the labourer's cotton smock, the leather suit of George Fox. —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
• The man wore a suit of black fustian, a foxskin cap, blue stockings and heavy shoes. —  Which? or, Between Two Women
• I inquired how she learned all this foolish fustian, and with an indescribable mixture of pride, pity, and triumph, as if she realized that she was throwing Mont Blanc at my head, she mentioned you two eminently evangelical guides, from whose infallible lips she had gleaned her knowledge. —  Infelice
• It was fustian, and would answer admirably No sooner thought of, than with my knife I cut a piece from the flap, and placing it over the hole, and punching it well in with the blade, I succeeded in stopping the run, though I could perceive that it yet leaked a little. —  The Boy Tar
• The amiable fustian, the Falstaffian bombast of Lucan and Ovid's brilliant imagination, all stamp their indelible seal upon the vivid coloring of Livy, the somewhat affected severity of Sallust, and the elegant morality of Tacitus. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862

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