Young men will rather wear a black coat and starve than wear fustian and do well.
The Taming of the Shrew' tells of serving-men: 'In their new fustian and their white jackets.
There are in his Coriolanus, among a great many natural and admirable Beauties, three or four of those Ornaments which Horace would term ambitious; and which we in English are apt to call Fustian or Bombast.
There I disrobed, and resumed my check shirt, and trowsers, and fustian coat.
It approached the impassable ford, and we now saw that it was a lantern carried by a negro, who was lighting the steps of a short squat figure of a man, dressed in a fustian coatee and nankeen trowsers, with an umbrella over his head.
Well may the poet exclaim in bitter sarcasm, "The fustian flag that proudly waves In solemn mockery o'er a land of slaves.
Well may the poet exclaim in bitter sarcasm, "The fustian flag that proudly waves In solemn mockery o'er a land of slaves.
On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gaudy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat.
Methought, when I this poem read, No vessel but an ass's head Such frigid fustian could contain; I mean, the head without the brain.
His motions and his hints, as he describes them, in regard to cold or fustian writers, seem to include the extreme points of his own genius.
I am the better able to judge, because I see her in neglige costume--a morning jacket, and a shortfustian skirt, as well as I can see from here.
She was still dressed in the white jacket and short fustian skirt; that costume was very becoming to her, it showed off all her good points.
The person I addressed was a tall young man, with a fustian frock coat.
My two companions chattered in their strange Spanish, he of the fustian occasionally turning his countenance full upon me, the last grin appearing ever more hideous than the preceding ones.
The person in the fustian coat approached the chimney, and applied a small turnscrew, which he took from his pocket, to a screw in the iron frame-work of the rusty grate.
The other man likewise divested the pockets of hisfustian coat of divers packages; and all these were piled upon the table.
One wore a gabardine and coarse leather gaiters, with laced-up boots; the other had on a fustian shooting-jacket and long corduroy trousers.
At length the candle was brought by the man in the fustian coat.
Dick," answered the latter in a surly tone, producing at the same time a bottle of liquor from the capacious pocket of his fustian coat.
Some love to hear the fustian poet roar, And some on antiquated authors pore; Rummage for sense, and think those only good Who labour most, and least are understood.
Tis fustian all; 'tis execrably bad; But if they will be fools, must you be mad?
There were present some half dozen yokels, the vicar's curate, a country blood or two, and a little withered runt of a man in fustian with a weazened face like a wrinkled pippin.
The little rat in fustian broke out screaming that he would swear to me among ten thousand: as to the girl she must be the rebel's accomplice, his mistress mayhap.
We think of papa in his old fustian shooting-jacket, paying the laborers, and higgling about half a day to be stopped here, and a sack of meal to be deducted there.
I have a black coat instead of a raggedfustian jacket; my shirt-collar is whiter and more rigid in its purity even than your own.
Prisoner: I came from Hertfordshire 12 months ago, and I met with a man in a fustian jacket, who asked me to go with him to Buckingham House.
Prisoner: I wished to see the Palace, and I went in with a man in a fustian jacket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fustian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
