1 behaviour or writing that is too serious or formal, and in which you try to appear or sound more important or intelligent than you really are:
2 made from a thick, rough cotton cloth that lasts for a long time:
3 too serious or formal, and trying to appear or sound more important or intelligent than you are:
His ideas denoted a challenge to the fustian reactionaries then in charge.
The dialogue is poetic and occasionally slightly fustian.
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.
