a stout fabric of cotton and flax.

a fabric of stout twilled cotton or of cotton and low-quality wool, with a short nap or pile.

inflated or turgid language in writing or speaking

Fustian can't disguise the author's meager plot.

made of fustian

a fustian coat; fustian bed linen.

pompous or bombastic, as language

fustian melodrama.

worthless; cheap

fustian knaves and dupes.

adjective

arrogant , boastful , bombastic , conceited , flaunting , high and mighty * , highfalutin , lofty , ostentatious , pontifical , portentous , pretentious , puffed up , ranting , self-centered , self-important , vain , vainglorious , aureate , declamatory , flowery , grandiloquent , high-flown , high-sounding , magniloquent , orotund , overblown , rhetorical , swollen

noun

claptrap , grandiloquence , magniloquence , orotundity , rant , turgidity