"thick cotton cloth," c. 1200, from Old French fustaigne, fustagne (12c., Modern French futaine), from Medieval Latin fustaneum, perhaps from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood; cudgel, club" (see fustigate) as a loan-translation of Greek xylina lina "linens of wood" (i.e. "cotton"). But the Medieval Latin word also is sometimes said to be from Fostat, town near Cairo where this cloth was manufactured. [Klein finds this derivation untenable.] Figurative sense of "pompous, inflated language" recorded by 1590s.
实用例句
1. Fustian can't disguise the author's meager plot.
浮夸的文章掩饰不住这个作者的贫乏情节。来自辞典例句
2. His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets.
他身上穿的是件印有血红色大花的粗斜纹布衬衫, 每当他吐露秘密时, 西班牙式的流苏就颤悠.来自互联网
3. Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony ( Joseph Heller )
