thick, hard-wearing twilled cloth with a short nap, usually dyed in dark colours 纬起绒织物,纬起毛织物
pompous or pretentious speech or writing 浮夸(或自夸)的话(或文章) a smokescreen of fustian and fantasy. 充斥了浮夸荒诞之词的障眼法。
语源
Middle English: from Old French fustaigne, from medieval Latin fustaneum, from (pannus) fustaneus 'cloth from Fostat', a suburb of Cairo; sense 2 perhaps from the fact that fustian was sometimes used to cover pillows and cushions, implying that the language was ‘padded’; compare with bombast