fustian
suomi-englanti sanakirjafustian englannista suomeksi
parkkumi, puuvillavakosametti
mahtipontisuus
Substantiivi
fustian englanniksi
Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)
(quote-book)|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=University Press|Clarendon Press|year=1882|volume=IV (1401–1582)|page=568|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BOgJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA568|oclc=1114763251|passage=Fustian, of which I found only one entry before 1401, occurs frequently in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It appears to have been a ribbed cloth. (..) On one occasion (1443) it is described as 'white ribbed fustian.'
(RQ:Hardy Wessex Tales)
(quote-book) In all fustians there is a warp and filling, or weft thread, independent of the additional filling-thread forming the pile; but in corduroys the pile thread is only 'thrown in' where the corded portions are and is absent in the narrow spaces between.
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(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=(publisher)|Harper & Brothers,(nb...)|year=1855|section=chapter IV (Cotton Fabrics for Dress and Furniture), section VIII (Description of the Various Cotton Fabrics), paragraph 5665|page=962|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5oDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA962|oclc=639939325|passage=''Fustian'' is a species of coarse twilled cotton, but may be considered as a general term which comprehends several varieties of cotton fabrics, as corduroy, jean, velveret, velveteen, thickset, thickset cord, and other stout cloths for men's wearing apparel; from their strength and cheapness, they are very serviceable to agricultural people. It is generally dyed of an olive, leaden, or other colours. (..) Fustians are either plain or twilled.
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Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also , incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.
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(RQ:Marlowe Doctor Faustus)
(RQ:Jonson Every Man out of His Humour), yond' gallants obserue vs; pr'y thee let's talke fuſtian a little, and gull 'hem: make 'hem beleeue vve are great ſchollers.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)
(RQ:Dryden Spanish Fryar)
(RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)'' ſeems to have been more commonly miſtaken than the juſt Pitch of his Style: Some of his Tranſlators having ſvvell'd into Fuſtian in a proud Confidence of the ''Sublime''; others ſunk into Flatneſs in a cold and timorous Notion of ''Simplicity''.
(RQ:Addison Works)'' in the deſcription of his infant ''Titan'' deſcants on this glory about his head, but has run his deſcription into moſt wretched fustian.
(RQ:Pope Arbuthnot)
(RQ:Walpole George 3)&93; worthy of himself. His admirers were in ecstasies; the few that dared to sneer at his theatric fustian, did not find it quite so ridiculous as they wished.
(RQ:Disraeli Endymion)
(quote-book): His Life and Art(nb...)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Nicholas L. Brown|year=1923|page=49|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/pauzann00voll/page/49/mode/1up|oclc=1085672956|passage=What made Manet|Édouard Manet a veritable prophet in his day, was that he brought a simple formula to a period in which the official art was merely fustian and conventionality.
(quote-journal) (Review)|location=London|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|date=1 March 2014|page=R19|issn=0307-1235|oclc=635239717|passage=Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
''Chiefly in'' rum fustian: a hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or wine) with yolk, lemon, and spices.
(quote-book) Henry Slatter; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,(nb...)|year=1827|page=24|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b30371648/page/24/mode/1up|oclc=855015101|passage=RUMFUSTIAN. The yolks of twelve eggs, one quart of strong beer, one bottle of white wine, half a pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peeling of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sufficient sugar to sweeten it;(nb..)|brackets=on
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Haddon for (w),(nb...)|year=1832|column=62|columnurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=brIPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA61|oclc=1008509578|passage=''Rum Fustian'' is a "night-cap" made precisely in the same way as the preceding or egg-flip, with the yolks of twelve eggs, a quart of strong home-brewed beer, a bottle of white wine, half-a-pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peel of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sugar sufficient to sweeten it.
(quote-book)|edition=4th|location=Madras|publisher=(...) D. P. L. C. Connor, at the Christian Knowledge Society’s Press,(nb...)|year=1853|page=350|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCVMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA350|oclc=38894948|passage=''Rum fustian'' is prepared at Oxford as follows: whisk up to a froth the yolks of six eggs and add them to a pint of gin and a quart of strong beer; boil up a bottle of sherry in a sauce-pan, with a stick of cinnamon or nutmeg grated, a dozen large lumps of sugar, and the rind of a lemon peeled very thin; when the wine boils, it is poured upon the beer and gin and drank hot.
(RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation)
(RQ:Coryat Crudities) they ſhould haue ſold them; (..)
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(RQ:Smollett Ferdinand)
(RQ:Thackeray Virginians)
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also using incoherent or unintelligible language.
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(RQ:Florio Worlde of Wordes)
(RQ:Jonson Alchemist) VVhy, you muſt entertaine him. (smallcaps) VVhat'll you doe / VVith theſe the vvhile? (smallcaps) VVhy, haue 'hem vp, and ſhew 'hem / Some Fuſtian Booke, or the Darke Glaſſe.
(RQ:Cockeram English Dictionarie) even of the ''fustian termes'', used by too many who study rather to bee heard speake, than to understand themselves.
(RQ:Dryden Juvenal Satires)
(RQ:Hallam Literature of Europe) himself would have written before he arrived at years of discretion."
(RQ:Jonson Cynthia's Revels): vvhich I doe vehemently ſuſpect for ſome fuſtian countrie, but let that vaniſh.
(RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2 Q1)
A cloth made of cotton, flax or wool, being the ancestor of modern (l).
(RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales)