Crossword-Solution: FUSTIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fustian | n. | A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. |
| Fustian | n. | 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. |
| Fustian | a. | Made of fustian. |
| Fustian | a. | Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “FUSTIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TWILLED cotton fabric with short nap | 1 answer |
| SHORT napped cloth | 1 answer |
| MOLESKIN-like cloth | 1 answer |
| High-sounding nonsense. | 1 answer |
| FABRIC of cotton and linen | 3 answers |
| COTTON and linen fabric | 3 answers |
| Rhetoric | 4 answers |
| moleskin | 4 answers |
| Twilled cotton cloth. | 4 answers |
| rhapsody | 5 answers |
| grandiloquence | 9 answers |
| A STRONG COTTON AND LINEN FABRIC WITH A SLIGHT NAP | 11 answers |
| CORDUROY | 17 answers |
| Feckless | 23 answers |
| Highfalutin | 25 answers |
| Twilled fabric | 27 answers |
| cotton cloth | 27 answers |
| empty talk | 37 answers |
| illogicality | 43 answers |
| Bosh | 47 answers |
| Bombast | 52 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| Gibberish | 60 answers |
| Balderdash | 74 answers |
| Worthless | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FUSTIAN (5)
The door then opened, and a plain elm coffin was slowly thrust forth, and laid by two men in fustian along the middle of the vehicle.
This amusement is superintended by the Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank—a species of High Jinks, as it were, by which they regulated their potations, as toasts were given in latter times.
For three years he earned his living as regularly as the obscure functionary in fustian who swept the office.
Planks and poles had arrived in the churchyard, iron bars had been thrust into the venerable crack extending down the belfry wall to the foundation, the bells had been taken down, the owls had forsaken this home of their forefathers, and six iconoclasts in white fustian, to whom a cracked edifice was a species of Mumbo Jumbo, had taken lodgings in the village previous to beginning the actual removal of the stones.
Men with the blue jersey and peaked cap of the boatman, or the white ducks of the dockers, began to replace the corduroys and fustian of the laborers.
Quotes with FUSTIAN (2)
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette'…
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1961).