fustian's Usage Examples:

The once considerable manufacture of fustian has declined.

Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.

Jean, said to be derived from Genoa where a kind of fustian with this title was made, is a kind of twilled cloth.

Real cotton goods were not made in Lancashire till 1641, when Bolton is named as the chief seat of the manufacture of fustians, vermilions and dimities.

Fustian >>Jean, said to be derived from Genoa where a kind of fustian with this title was made, is a kind of twilled cloth.

In the 18th and early r9th centuries the chief industries were huckabacks and coarse cloths, canvas, fustians, pins, glass, sugar-refining and copper.

fustian cutting, which ceased in the 1930s.

Coal and salt are raised, and the other industries include fustian, towel, couch, chair and nail factories, iron and brass foundries, stone quarries and corn mills.

It was used as the headquarters of the fustian weavers during their strike in 1906-7.

There are boot and shoe factories, chemical works and a manufactory of fustians, with salt-works and iron-works in the adjacent township of Wheelock.

fustian jackets ' of the north - factory workers rather than artisans.

Synonyms:

magniloquence, blah, claptrap, rhetoric, bombast, grandiloquence, rant, grandiosity, ornateness,

Antonyms:

insubstantiality, insubstantial, immaterial, incorporeality, incorporeal,