FUSTIAN, in Commerce, a kind of cotton stuff, which seems as it were whaled on one side.
Right fustians should be altogether made of cotton-yarn, both woof and warp; but a great many are made, the warp of which is flax, or even hemp.
There are fustians made of several kinds, wide, narrow, fine, coarse; with flag or nap, and without it.
FUSTIAN is also used for a bombast style, or a high swelling kind of writing, made up of heterogeneous parts.