Usage examples (37)

• They were looking for some fustian such as velveteen to make the intricate costumes.
• Others who have a great deal of fire, but have not excellent organs, feel the fore-mentioned motions, without the extraordinary hints; and these we call fustian writers. '
• Quarry Bank had also begun weaving, and like many of the mills near here produced a fabric called fustian, also known as
• Why should he deny himself his velvet? it is but a kind of fustian which costs him eighteenpence a yard.