"thick cotton cloth," c. 1200, from Old French fustaigne, fustagne (12c., Modern French futaine), from Medieval Latin fustaneum, perhaps from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood; cudgel, club" (see fustigate) as a loan-translation of Greek xylina lina "linens of wood" (i.e. "cotton"). But the Medieval Latin word also is sometimes said to be from Fostat, town near Cairo where this cloth was manufactured. [Klein finds this derivation untenable.] Figurative sense of "pompous, inflated language" recorded by 1590s.
雙語例句
1. Fustian can't disguise the author's meager plot.
浮夸的文章掩飾不住這個作者的貧乏情節。
來自辭典例句
2. His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets.
他身上穿的是件印有血紅色大花的粗斜紋布襯衫, 每當他吐露秘密時, 西班牙式的流蘇就顫悠.
來自互聯網
3. Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony ( Joseph Heller )