fustian in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Some velveteens are a kind of fustian, having a rib of velvet pile alternating with a plain depression.
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A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding.
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Dialogue is littered with fustian, jeremiads, and daffish notions.
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When tarifs were removed in the 1860s, the empty mills were converted to fustian cutting.
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Clergymen, civil servants and other worthies translated the poet's crystalline cantos into pious fustian, full of cod moral sobriety.
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A silk throwing mill converted to fustian cutting then used as a cinema, and a garage.
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Fustian complains as well that authors are denied stagings because of these entertainments, and, as well, that playhouse managers would steal plays from their authors.
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Pupils were given new clothes each year the girls had green frocks and bonnets, and the boys had jackets and fustian trousers.
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The second wave of settlers wove fustian, a rough cloth made of linen and cotton.
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Silk, wool, and fustian fabrics were being eclipsed by cotton which became the most important textile.
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