fustian

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  • Among our dresses there were most kinds of shabby and greasy wear, and much fustian and corduroy that was neither sound nor fragrant. 

  • For three years he earned his living as regularly as the obscure functionary in fustian who swept the office. 

  • He was attired in loose fustian clothes with a red handkerchief wound round his throat, and a low slouching hat—one of those called wide-awake—partially concealed his features. 

  • 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. 

  • There is something touching in the whiteness of a well-worn shirt, and the careful patches of a poor man's old fustian coat. 

  • The fustian suit is perhaps better seen as a variation upon the theme of unity, rather than a symbol of nascent class consciousness.

  • It would be very much more dignified if he just went around in ordinary fustian.

  • I think that those who make attacks of this kind should really prepare for themselves a little less fustian.

  • They cover every age and every rôle, but the best ones which are simple, straightforward, fustian garments have been almost unused.

  • In one case, that of the fustian cutting trade, information has been collected and is at present under examination.

  • In medicine, in law, in business, or in commerce there are acts done by gentlemen corresponding to those clone by men who are dressed in fustian.

  • Some velveteens are a kind of fustian, having a rib of velvet pile alternating with a plain depression.

  • Pupils were given new clothes each year the girls had green frocks and bonnets, and the boys had jackets and fustian trousers.

  • This two-storey building was typical of a fustian mill 8m wide by 49m with a clear uncluttered floor.

  • When tarifs were removed in the 1860s, the empty mills were converted to fustian cutting.

  • Workers' cottages from the fustian-cutting industry have survived.

  • This literary use arose because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are "fustian".

  • It continued in common use in the cotton and fustian industry until about 1810.

  • When the tarifs were removed in the 1860s, the empty mills moved over to fustian cutting.

  • This was built as a fustian mill and was used for shirt manufacture between 1906 and 1959, and for pyjamas from 1960 to 1998.

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