home

fustian

1811 Vulgar Tongue

Bombast language. Red fustian; port wine.

Merriam-Webster

High-flown or affected writing or speech; broadly : anything high-flown or affected in style

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 am and is filed under Word of the Day. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Share This

Leave a Reply

« cag
bugaroch »