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fustian

/ˈfʌstiən/noun

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noun
  1. 1

    [U]

    a type of thick, strong cotton cloth, used in the past for making clothes

    मोटा सूती कपड़ा

    • Workers in the nineteenth century often wore jackets of fustian.
  2. 2

    [U] formal, disapproving

    language that sounds impressive but has little meaning

    आडंबरपूर्ण भाषा, शब्दाडंबर, लफ़्फ़ाज़ी

    • His speech was full of fustian and empty promises.

    Synonyms bombast pomposity grandiloquence rhetoric verbiage

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