| Without doubt the ranting fustian of men vying for a woman makes the threat seem laughable. |
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| Most outer garments made of fustian were included among the garb of these people. |
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| But over time the demand for fustian died away and the trade ceased, as did the skill of grass-cutting. |
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| Also appearing in period dress and timeless fustian are Roy Scheider, Patrick Bergin, David Alan Grier, and Steven Bauer. |
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| The woven stripe fabric is a cotton-linen mixture, possibly a fabric known as fustian. |
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| It's dangerous to assume that we have to wrap Shakespeare up in fustian costumes. |
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| There's no time for such sorry fustian in the world of the canny academic careerist. |
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| It reminds a reader that, unlike the surrounding fustian, this little piece of language is to be treated with reflective care. |
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| One of the champions of self-exposure is Henry James, who often stitches together a few scraps of dialog with acres of inner fustian. |
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| This dress uniform includes tasseled cap and shoes, white stockings and the fustanella, a shirtwaist with pleated skirt of white fustian. |
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| And he showed them the object he had tucked into the belt that kept his robes of rough brown fustian from flapping in the breeze. |
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| If you do, you are miles away from my opinion, for I hold that Homer no more dreamed of all this allegorical fustian than Ovid in his Metamorphoses dreamed of the Gospel. |
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| By 1620 a new industrial era had begun with the weaving of fustian, a cloth with a linen warp but a cotton weft. |
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| From the mid-17th century, when cotton began to be used in fabric manufacture, Manchester became important in the fustian trade. |
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| Men's dress, made with heavy fustian cloth basically black or brown once worn by the ancestors. |
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| All these skirts made possible the wider display of patterned silk, taffeta, fustian, or wool with decoration of embroidery, buttons, or jewels. |
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| Elgar's Sea Pictures seldom rise above the fustian level of their poetic texts, and among the six Chausson items only two or three were memorable. |
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| Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth School of the Society of Friends, and apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills, Derbyshire. |
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| Claudian in the description of his infant Titan descants on this glory about his head, but has run his description into most wretched fustian. |
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| I may often get impatient with Twombly's showoffy irresoluteness and fustian poetic conceits, but if I try to imagine art of our time without his exceedingly human presence in it, I feel a global chill. |
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| A hobby once derided as fustian has become fashionable. |
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| Silk, wool, fustian, and linen were being eclipsed by cotton, which was becoming the most important textile. |
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| Forty days after the fustian former president's death from cancer, Mr Maduro, his protégé, scraped the narrowest of victories in a snap presidential election held on April 14th. |
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| This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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| The original medieval fustian was a stout but respectable cloth with a cotton weft and a linen warp. |
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| As such, radical elements of the British working class chose to wear fustian jackets as a symbol of their class allegiance. |
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| This literary use arose because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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| A change came about 1740 when fustian masters gave out raw cotton and warps to the weavers and returned to collect the finished cloth. |
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| The fustian trade gave the towns a skilled workforce that was used to the complicated Dutch looms, and was perhaps accustomed to industrial discipline. |
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| The demand for heavier fabric was met by a domestic industry based around Lancashire that produced fustian, a cloth with flax warp and cotton weft. |
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| Her husband was trying to calm her down, assuage her, and in the end what she did was to put a handkerchief over her face and secure it with the brim of a fustian hat. |
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| Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. |
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| Fustian also refers to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, starting from the time of Shakespeare. |
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| From 1800 to 1850 it was commonly called Baragan Fustian, and much used in Australia. |
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