VVWhere's the Cooke, is ſupper ready, the houſe trim'd, ruſhes ſtrevv'd, cobvvebs ſvvept, the ſeruingmen in their nevv fuſtian, their vvhite ſtockings, and euery officer his vvedding garment on?
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Fustian
/ˈfʌs.tɪ.ən/
Synonyms for "fustian" (110 found)
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14 entriesclothexpressionfabricgrandiloquencegrandiositylanguagelinguistic stylemagniloquencematerialornatenessrhetoricrhetorical qualitytextiletextile material
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8 entriescoarse fustianfustian clothfustian fabricfustian languagefustian prosefustian rhetoricfustian speechfustian writing
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Fustian, of which I found only one entry before 1401, occurs frequently in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It appears to have been a ribbed cloth. […] On one occasion (1443) it is described as 'white ribbed fustian.'
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His clothes were of fustian, and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustained peasantry.
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The different names given to fustian cloths depend upon their degree of fineness, and the manner in which they are woven and finished. […] In all fustians there is a warp and filling, or weft thread, independent of the additional filling-thread forming the pile; but in corduroys the pile thread is only 'thrown in' where the corded portions are and is absent in the narrow spaces between.
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