Sentence examples for fustian from inspiring English sources

A hobby once derided as fustian has become fashionable.

There's no fustian for Hilary Mantel; no women stepping down Cheapside, wimples a-waggle.

Forty days after the fustian former president's death from cancer, Mr Maduro, his protégé, scraped the narrowest of victories in a snap presidential election held on April 14th.

As the material became popular its production spread northward; southern Germany and Switzerland had a rising fustian industry in the 14th century, and French weavers were making fringed and roughened fustians in the 16th.

All these skirts made possible the wider display of patterned silk, taffeta, fustian, or wool with decoration of embroidery, buttons, or jewels.

By 1620 a new industrial era had begun with the weaving of fustian, a cloth with a linen warp but a cotton weft.

From the mid-17th century, when cotton began to be used in fabric manufacture, Manchester became important in the fustian trade.

Following the French fashion, he wrote Scarronides (1664, 1665), which is a coarse burlesque of the Aeneid, books 1 and 4, and the Burlesque upon Burlesque... Being some of Lucians Dialogues newly put into English fustian (1675).

Crane's language, when not a matter of tangled metaphors (he mixed them almost more often than he mixed drinks), was a schoolboy code for which an English-Fustian, Fustian-English dictionary would have proved helpful.

In all fustians one of the sets of filling yarns is made up of floats (yarns that skip over two or more adjacent warp yarns).

These early fustians appear to have been smooth fabrics with a soft raised nap; eventually, a ribbed pile surface was developed.